Unscramble MELS and you have 12 words, MELS itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of MELS is on the page: ELMS, each 6 points. The best shorter words score 5: 4 of them, EMS, ELM and MEL included. The 4 letters split into 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from MELS split into 2 with 4 letters, 6 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of MELS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with ME · ending in LS · all 4-letter words
What MELS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept MELS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MELS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 12) | 12 | 12 | 11 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Words With Friends*: MES.
Each word below uses all the letters of MELS and one more.