Unscramble RAINBAND and you have 114 words, RAINBAND itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. BANDARI is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from RAINBAND split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 9 with 6, 17 with 5, 39 with 4, 34 with 3 and 13 with 2.
BANDARI is the only one of the 7-letter words in RAINBAND; it scores 10 points.
Of the 39 4-letter words from RAINBAND, 9 score 7 points, the group's best. BAND, BIRD and RAIN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of RAINBAND but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with RA · ending in ND · all 8-letter words
RAINBAND 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 RAINBAND, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RAINBAND itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 114) | 90 | 114 | 84 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
24 of the 114 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BANDARI, ABRAID, BANDAR, ABAND, ARABIN, ABID, ABRIN, BANIA, BRAAI, ARBA, DINNA, RIBA and 12 more. 6 of the 114 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BAIDAR, BANDA, RABI, DAN, DA and RAI.
Each word below uses all the letters of RAINBAND and one more.