Unscramble PUNTSMEN and you have 145 words, PUNTSMEN itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. SEPTUM and PENSUM are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
P34U12N12T1S1M34E1N12
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from PUNTSMEN split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 9 with 6, 23 with 5, 52 with 4, 42 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Among 52 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PUNTSMEN, the top score is 8, reached by 5. MUST, STEP and MENU are the familiar ones.
UMP scores highest among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble PUNTSMEN at 7 points, ahead of EMS and EMU on 5. USE, SET and MEN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PUNTSMEN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PU · ending in EN · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by SEPTUM (10 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
PUNTSMEN is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUNTSMEN itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 145) | 121 | 145 | 111 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
24 of the 145 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PUNTSMEN, PENSUM, EMPTS, NEMPT, EMPT, MUSET, NEMNS, PENTS, MENT, METS, MEUS, NEMN and 12 more. 10 of the 145 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TUMS, MES, PST, TUM, UMS, UTES, EST, TES, UTE and TE.