Unscramble NONDANCES to get 220 words. NONDANCES itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, CANNONED and NONDANCE lead with 11 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from NONDANCES split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 7 with 7, 23 with 6, 54 with 5, 60 with 4, 54 with 3 and 19 with 2.
Of the 23 6-letter words you get when you unscramble NONDANCES, 10 score 9 points, the group's best. SECOND, CANNON and OCEANS are the ones most people know.
17 of 54 5-letter words from NONDANCES tie at 8 points; none scores more. DANCE, CANON and CODES will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words in NONDANCES, 14 score 7 points, the group's best. DOES, SEND and CODE are the ones most people know.
CAD, COD and DOC are the top 3-letter words made with NONDANCES letters, 6 points each. CAN, ONE and END will look familiar.
Keep every letter of NONDANCES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with NO · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
NONDANCES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NONDANCES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NONDANCES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 220) | 179 | 218 | 162 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CONNES, COSED, ECADS, SCAND, CANNS, COND, CONNE, DONNES, ECAD, ECOD, ONCES, SONCE and 27 more, 39 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DECANS, DECAN, ASCON, NONANES, ECOS, NONANE, SOCA, DANS, DOSA, ECO, NANOS, ODAS and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK: NANCES and NANCE, 2 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of NONDANCES spell the words below.