Unscramble PALENESSES and you have 247 words, PALENESSES itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. 4 shorter words score 10, among them PALENESS, PANELESS and SNAPLESS. The 10 letters split into 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from PALENESSES by length: 1 with 10 letters, 5 with 8, 16 with 7, 48 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 43 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 9 letters.
29 of 48 6-letter words from PALENESSES tie at 8 points; none scores more. PLEASE, LENSES and PASSES will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble PALENESSES, 43 score 7 points, the group's best. PLANS, PANEL and SLEEP are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PALENESSES, the top score is 6, reached by 42. PLAN, PASS and LANE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of PALENESSES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with PA · ending in ES · all 10-letter words
PALENESSES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. PALENESSES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PALENESSES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 247) | 199 | 247 | 191 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 48 of them: ALPEENS, PENSELS, ALPEEN, EASELESS, ELPEES, PENSEL, SPANES, SPEALS, ELPEE, ENSEALS, LEEPS, PELAS and 36 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: PANELESS, SAPELES, SAPELE, SEPS, ESNES, ESNE, ESSE and SAN.
These 2 words take every letter of PALENESSES plus a single extra one.