Unscramble POOFTAH and you have 72 words, POOFTAH itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. PHOTO, HOOF and HAFT are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. POOFTAH as a single 7-tile play makes 65 in Scrabble, 15 plus the 50 bonus, and 50 in Words With Friends (15 + 35).
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from POOFTAH by length: 1 with 7 letters, 2 with 5, 17 with 4, 39 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 6 letters.
Keep every letter of POOFTAH but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with PO · ending in AH · all 7-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with HAFT, HOOF and PHOTO (10 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Not in Scrabble, but POOFTAH is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POOFTAH itself | No | No | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 72) | 64 | 71 | 55 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
10 of the 72 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FAH, PHO, FOO, HOO, OOF, TOPO, APO, OPA, POO and PO. 7 of the 72 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FAP, TOHO, HOA, POOT, OOP, POA and OO. 1 of the 72 answers is missing from Scrabble US and Scrabble UK: POOFTAH.
With one more tile, the letters of POOFTAH spell the words below.