Unscramble QUINTAINS and you have 178 words, QUINTAINS itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 17: 5 of them, QUININAS, QUINNATS and QUINTAIN included. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from QUINTAINS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 5 with 8, 8 with 7, 12 with 6, 36 with 5, 54 with 4, 45 with 3 and 17 with 2.
11 of 36 5-letter words from QUINTAINS tie at 14 points; none scores more. UNITS, SAINT and SATIN will look familiar.
Of the 54 4-letter words from QUINTAINS, 6 score 13 points, the group's best. UNIT, ANTI and SUIT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of QUINTAINS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with QU · ending in NS · all 9-letter words
What QUINTAINS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept QUINTAINS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUINTAINS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 178) | 130 | 178 | 121 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
48 of the 178 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: QUINAS, QUATS, QUINA, QUIST, SQUIT, QINS, QUAT, QIN, UNSAINT, NAUNTS, TUINAS, UNTINS and 36 more. 9 of the 178 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: QIS, QI, TIANS, STAN, TIAN, UNIS, ATS, SAN and UNI.
Each word below uses all the letters of QUINTAINS and one more.