124 words come out when you unscramble NONRIVAL, starting with NONRIVAL itself: 11 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. NONRIVAL has 1 anagram here, NONVIRAL, scoring 11 like NONRIVAL itself. 14 shorter words score 8, among them VIRAL, RIVAL and VIOLA. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from NONRIVAL split into 2 with 8 letters, 19 with 5, 55 with 4, 34 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 7 or 6 letters.
Of the 55 4-letter words from NONRIVAL, 17 score 7 points, the group's best. LOAN, ORAL and IRON are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of NONRIVAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NO · ending in AL · all 8-letter words
What NONRIVAL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
NONRIVAL 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NONRIVAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 124) | 104 | 123 | 94 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 19 of them: LIVOR, ORVAL, RIVA, RIVO, VALI, VOAR, VOLA, VRIL, RAV, VOL, VOR, ANNO and 7 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: NAV, VIN, RONIN, LARN, NANO, NONI, ARO, LOR, RAI and OI. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: VON.
This word takes every letter of NONRIVAL plus a single extra one.