Unscramble PENNAMES and you have 171 words, PENNAMES itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. PENNAME and SPAEMEN are the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PENNAMES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 12 with 6, 36 with 5, 60 with 4, 45 with 3 and 15 with 2.
34 of 36 5-letter words from PENNAMES tie at 7 points; none scores more. MEANS, NAMES and ASPEN will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PENNAMES, 5 score 8 points, the group's best. NAME, SAME and MEAN are the ones most people know.
Among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble PENNAMES, AMP, MAP and PAM tie for first at 7 points. SEE, MAN and MEN are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of PENNAMES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PE · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
PENNAMES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PENNAMES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENNAMES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 171) | 129 | 171 | 121 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
42 of the 171 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SPAEMEN, ENSEAM, MEANES, AMENE, MEANE, MEASE, MENES, NEMNS, SAMEN, SEAME, SPANE, AMES and 30 more. 8 of the 171 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: APEMEN, PENNES, SPAM, MES, NENES, ESNE, NAES and SAN.