Unscramble POINTERS and you have 299 words, POINTERS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. POINTERS has 4 anagrams here, PORNIEST, PROTEINS, REPOINTS and TROPINES, scoring 10 like POINTERS itself. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from POINTERS split into 5 with 8 letters, 28 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 26 with 2.
22 of 28 7-letter words made with POINTERS letters tie at 9 points; none scores more. PROTEIN and POINTER will look familiar.
All 60 of the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble POINTERS score 8 points. PERSON, POINTS and POSTER are the ones most people know.
Every one of the 60 5-letter words from POINTERS scores 7. PRINT, POINT and PORTS are everyday picks.
The 4-letter words made with POINTERS letters come to 60, each scoring 6 points. POST, OPEN and STEP are the familiar ones.
Of the 60 3-letter words you get when you unscramble POINTERS, 27 score 5 points, the group's best. NOT, ONE and ITS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of POINTERS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PO · ending in RS · all 8-letter words
What POINTERS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept POINTERS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POINTERS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 299) | 235 | 299 | 216 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 64 of them: NIPTERS, PERIOST, PIONERS, PONTIES, PORIEST, PROINES, PTERION, NEPITS, NIPTER, OPTERS, PIERST, PIERTS and 52 more. Words With Friends* skips 19 of them: REPOINTS, PRONEST, REPOINT, ESPOIR, PERNIO, PORINS, POSIER, POSTIE, PRONES, REPOST, SITREP, INSPO and 7 more.
With one more tile, the letters of POINTERS spell the words below.