216 words come out when you unscramble MICROWAVE, starting with MICROWAVE itself: 19 in Scrabble, 22 in Words With Friends. ICEWORM and VOMICAE are the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from MICROWAVE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 13 with 6, 57 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 57 5-letter words from MICROWAVE, 4 score 11 points, the group's best. MOVIE, COVER and VOICE are the ones most people know.
6 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble MICROWAVE tie at 10 points; none scores more. VIEW, OVER and COME will look familiar.
CWM scores highest among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble MICROWAVE at 10 points, ahead of VAW and VOW on 9. CAR, WAR and MAR are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of MICROWAVE for another and you can spell these 3 words:
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The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ICEWORM and VOMICAE (14 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
MICROWAVE works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MICROWAVE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 216) | 166 | 216 | 153 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: AWMRIE, CAVIER, CROWEA, AMORCE, AMOVE, MOWRA, ROWME, VOEMA, VRAIC, CIMAR, CIVE, CORAM and 38 more, 50 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ICEWORM, VAREC, CAMI, CAMO, MERC, MIC, OWIE, ECO, EMO, EW, MOI, OMA and 1 more, 13 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of MICROWAVE and one more.