Unscramble MELPHALAN and you have 172 words, MELPHALAN itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from MELPHALAN split into 1 with 9 letters, 11 with 6, 29 with 5, 60 with 4, 50 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 8 or 7 letters.
10 of 29 5-letter words in MELPHALAN tie at 10 points; none scores more. PANEL, ALPHA and PLANE will look familiar.
HEMP scores highest among the 4-letter words from MELPHALAN at 11 points, ahead of AHEM and AMAH on 9. HELP, NAME and PLAN are the ones most people know.
50 3-letter words you get when you unscramble MELPHALAN; 7 of them share the top score of 8. ALL, MAP and MAN are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of MELPHALAN for another and you can spell this word:
More 9-letter words: starting with ME · ending in AN · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by PELHAM (13 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept MELPHALAN, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELPHALAN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 172) | 140 | 172 | 132 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
32 of the 172 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PALLAH, AHEAP, HANAP, MANEH, HALLAN, MAHA, NALLAH, PELMA, NAHAL, PALLAE, PALLA, ALAP and 20 more. 8 of the 172 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PELHAM, APEMAN, HALAL, LAHAL, MEH, LAH, NAPA and PAAN.
This word takes every letter of MELPHALAN plus a single extra one.