Unscramble PREFLIGHT and you have 213 words, PREFLIGHT itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from PREFLIGHT by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 8 with 7, 15 with 6, 49 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 18 with 2.
FIGHT tops the 5-letter words from PREFLIGHT at 12 points; next come FILTH and FIRTH on 11. RIGHT, LIGHT and EIGHT will look familiar.
HEFT and PEGH share the top score of 10 among the 4-letter words from PREFLIGHT. HELP, LIFE and FILE are the ones most people know.
The best of the 3-letter words in PREFLIGHT is FEH, 9 points; HEP and HIP on 8 follow. GET, LET and HIT are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of PREFLIGHT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PR · ending in HT · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with PREFIGHT (17 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PREFLIGHT works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PREFLIGHT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 213) | 169 | 212 | 162 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
43 of the 213 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PIGHTLE, PIGHT, THELF, PEGH, PREIF, PRIEF, FILTRE, GLIFT, GRIPLE, HEPT, HIPT, FLEG and 31 more. 7 of the 213 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: REGIFT, FLIR, GIF, LIPE, FE, GI and TE. 1 of the 213 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
This word takes every letter of PREFLIGHT plus a single extra one.