189 words come out when you unscramble NONLETHAL, starting with NONLETHAL itself: 12 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
N12O1N12L12E1T1H43A1L12
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from NONLETHAL by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 9 with 6, 41 with 5, 60 with 4, 51 with 3 and 24 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Among 41 5-letter words you get when you unscramble NONLETHAL, the top score is 8, reached by 21. HOTEL, ALONE and HELLO are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 4-letter words from NONLETHAL, 27 score 7 points, the group's best. THEN, LOAN and NONE are the ones most people know.
51 3-letter words from NONLETHAL; 17 of them share the top score of 6. NOT, ALL and ONE are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of NONLETHAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with NO · ending in AL · all 9-letter words
What NONLETHAL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NONLETHAL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NONLETHAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 189) | 160 | 188 | 155 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LATHEN, AHENT, ETHAL, HOTEN, LOHAN, THALE, HOTE, NOAH, TANH, THON, TONNELL, HAN and 17 more, 29 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: HALON, LAH, TENNO, NANO and TE, 5 in all. Not in Scrabble UK: HAOLE.