Unscramble NONLEXICAL and you have 233 words, NONLEXICAL itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. LEXICON, LEXICAL and COANNEX are the best of the shorter words, at 16 points. It has 10 letters, 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from NONLEXICAL by length: 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 8, 8 with 7, 41 with 6, 56 with 5, 60 with 4, 44 with 3 and 22 with 2. None has 9 letters.
LANOLINE is the only one of the 8-letter words made with NONLEXICAL letters; it scores 8 points.
8 of 41 6-letter words from NONLEXICAL tie at 15 points; none scores more. ONLINE, LOCALE and CANINE will look familiar.
Of the 56 5-letter words you get when you unscramble NONLEXICAL, 5 score 14 points, the group's best. LOCAL, CLEAN and CANON are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words from NONLEXICAL; 4 of them share the top score of 13. CALL, CELL and ONCE are everyday picks.
COX scores highest among the 3-letter words in NONLEXICAL at 12 points, ahead of AXE and EXO on 10. ALL, CAN and ONE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of NONLEXICAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with NO · ending in AL · all 10-letter words
The meaning of NONLEXICAL, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. NONLEXICAL is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NONLEXICAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 233) | 198 | 232 | 188 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 34 of them: CAXON, NOXAL, LANX, EXO, NOX, LIONCEL, ALLICE, ANCILE, CAILLE, CONNIE, NEANIC, ANCLE and 22 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: ALEXIC, OXIC, NEONIC, INCEL, LOCIE, ONLINE, CAL, ECO, LOC, OLLIE and OI. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 1 of them: NANCE.