Unscramble NONTROPICAL and you have 348 words, NONTROPICAL itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, PROLACTIN and PROACTION lead with 13 points. The 11 letters split into 4 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from NONTROPICAL split into 1 with 11 letters, 6 with 9, 25 with 8, 52 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 24 with 2. None has 10 letters.
Among 25 8-letter words made with NONTROPICAL letters, the top score is 12, reached by 6. LOCATION, OPTIONAL and TROPICAL are the familiar ones.
21 of 52 7-letter words from NONTROPICAL tie at 11 points; none scores more. CONTROL, CONTAIN and OPTICAL will look familiar.
Of the 60 6-letter words you get when you unscramble NONTROPICAL, 14 score 10 points, the group's best. ACTION, OPTION and PATROL are the ones most people know.
Among 60 5-letter words from NONTROPICAL, the top score is 9, reached by 18. TOPIC, COLOR and CANON are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 4-letter words in NONTROPICAL, 16 score 8 points, the group's best. CART, COOL and ICON are the ones most people know.
4 of 60 3-letter words made with NONTROPICAL letters tie at 7 points; none scores more. CAN, TOP and CAR will look familiar.
Keep every letter of NONTROPICAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 11-letter words: starting with NO · ending in AL · all 11-letter words
The meaning of NONTROPICAL, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. NONTROPICAL 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NONTROPICAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 348) | 284 | 346 | 255 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
64 of the 348 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CLIPART, PATRICO, PILCORN, PORTOLANI, PROCTAL, PROLATION, PROOTIC, COINOP, CONTORNI, COPITA, CORONIAL, INTONACO and 52 more. 27 of the 348 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PROACTION, OPTRONIC, ROOTCAP, NOPALITO, PORTOLAN, ALTCOIN, CAPOT, CAPRI, CORTINA, COLTAN, CONNOR, COPI and 15 more. 2 of the 348 answers are missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: CRIP and LARP.