Unscramble PREFERABLY to get 253 words. PREFERABLY itself is a real word: 20 points on a Scrabble board, 22 in Words With Friends. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
P34R1E1F4E1R1A1B34L12Y43
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PREFERABLY by length: 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 8, 8 with 7, 40 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2. None has 9 letters.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
Among 40 6-letter words you get when you unscramble PREFERABLY, the top score is 14, reached by 4. PLAYER, PRAYER and PREFER are the familiar ones.
BEEFY and FLYPE are the top 5-letter words from PREFERABLY, 13 points each. REPLY, EARLY and LAYER will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from PREFERABLY, 5 score 10 points, the group's best. FREE, PLAY and FEEL are the ones most people know.
4 of 60 3-letter words in PREFERABLY tie at 9 points; none scores more. PAY, FAR and BAY will look familiar.
Keep every letter of PREFERABLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with PR · ending in LY · all 10-letter words
PREFERABLY first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PREFERABLY, and the Words With Friends list has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PREFERABLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 253) | 203 | 252 | 191 |
* Lists: NWL2023, Collins CSW24, *Words With Friends' own (changing) list.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 50 of them: PERFAY, FLYPE, LEAFERY, AREFY, BEPEARL, BERLEY, EBAYER, FAYER, FAYRE, FLARY, YFERE, AYELP and 38 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: FRYABLE, PEABERRY, BELAYER, BARRY, BAYER, BLEARER, ERRABLE, FEEB, LEAFER, YER and BAE. Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: LARPER.