Unscramble PERILUNE and you have 155 words, PERILUNE itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
P34E1R1I1L12U12N12E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PERILUNE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 15 with 6, 22 with 5, 54 with 4, 47 with 3 and 14 with 2.
54 4-letter words from PERILUNE; 30 of them share the top score of 6. LINE, RULE and PURE are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of PERILUNE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PE · ending in NE · all 8-letter words
What PERILUNE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PERILUNE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERILUNE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 155) | 117 | 155 | 112 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
38 of the 155 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PRUINE, PULIER, NEPER, PENIE, PILER, LEEP, LERP, PENE, PENI, PERN, PIRL, PLUE and 26 more. 5 of the 155 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: LIPE, PERE, URP, LUN and UNI.
These 4 words take every letter of PERILUNE plus a single extra one.