Unscramble PLANARIAN and you have 118 words, PLANARIAN itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
P34L12A1N12A1R1I1A1N12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from PLANARIAN split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 8 with 6, 16 with 5, 50 with 4, 31 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 7 letters.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in PLANARIAN: PLANARIA, 10 points.
20 of 50 4-letter words from PLANARIAN tie at 6 points; none scores more. PLAN, PAIN and RAIN will look familiar.
Keep every letter of PLANARIAN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PL · ending in AN · all 9-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; PLANARIA (10 points) takes the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PLANARIAN, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLANARIAN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 118) | 97 | 117 | 88 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 21 of them: PARIAL, ALAAP, ALAPA, PANNI, PRIAL, ALAP, ARALIA, ARPA, PAAL, PILA, PIRL, ANANA and 9 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: PRANA, LIPA, NAPA, PAAN, PALI, LARN, NALA and RAI. Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: LARP.
With one more tile, the letters of PLANARIAN spell the words below.