Unscramble NONRULING and you have 124 words, NONRULING itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 8: 6 of them, RUNNING, GRUNION and LOUNING included. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from NONRULING split into 1 with 9 letters, 8 with 7, 7 with 6, 16 with 5, 41 with 4, 35 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 8 letters.
18 of 41 4-letter words from NONRULING tie at 5 points; none scores more. LONG, GIRL and RING will look familiar.
Keep every letter of NONRULING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with NO · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
The meaning of NONRULING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NONRULING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NONRULING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 124) | 85 | 123 | 74 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 38 of them: LOUNING, RONNING, LORING, LOUING, ONNING, RUNNION, URNING, LURGI, NONRUN, RIGOL, GINN, GORI and 26 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: LOGIN, INRUN, RONIN, NONI, NUG, ORG, GI, LOR, LUN, UNI and OI. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: UGLI.
Each word below uses all the letters of NONRULING and one more.