Unscramble POWERLESS to get 258 words. POWERLESS itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. 4 shorter words score 12, among them PROWESS, PLOWERS and REPLOWS. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from POWERLESS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 12 with 7, 56 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 52 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 8 letters.
56 6-letter words made with POWERLESS letters; 8 of them share the top score of 11. POWERS, LESSER and SLEEPS are everyday picks.
Of the 60 5-letter words from POWERLESS, 13 score 10 points, the group's best. POWER, LOWER and WORSE are the ones most people know.
12 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble POWERLESS tie at 9 points; none scores more. WERE, SLOW and PEER will look familiar.
PEW, POW and WOP share the top score of 8 among the 3-letter words from POWERLESS. SEE, LOW and PRO are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of POWERLESS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PO · ending in SS · all 9-letter words
What POWERLESS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. POWERLESS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWERLESS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 258) | 200 | 258 | 190 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 56 of them: POWRES, SPREWS, LOWPS, POWRE, SOWPS, SPREW, ELOPSES, LOWP, LOWSER, LOWSES, OWLERS, SEWELS and 44 more. Words With Friends* skips 12 of them: REPLOWS, REPLOW, SWOLER, WELP, SWOLE, PERES, EEW, PERE, EW, POS, PO and LOR. Scrabble US skips 2 of them: WOPS and WOP.
With one more tile, the letters of POWERLESS spell the words below.