Unscramble RINGTAIL to get 175 words. RINGTAIL itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: TRAILING and TRIALING. The best shorter words score 8: 9 of them, RAILING, TAILING and AIRTING included. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from RINGTAIL by length: 3 with 8 letters, 9 with 7, 18 with 6, 30 with 5, 60 with 4, 41 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 30 5-letter words from RINGTAIL, 21 score 6 points, the group's best. TRIAL, GRANT and TRAIN are the ones most people know.
29 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble RINGTAIL tie at 5 points; none scores more. GIRL, ANTI and RING will look familiar.
Keep every letter of RINGTAIL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with RI · ending in IL · all 8-letter words
What RINGTAIL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. RINGTAIL is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| RINGTAIL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 175) | 142 | 175 | 135 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GLAIRIN, RAITING, RATLING, ARLING, LITING, RAGINI, RIGLIN, AGRIN, NGATI, NIRLIT, RANGI, TANGI and 21 more, 33 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: TRIALING, ARTIGI, ATIGI, LARNT, LARN, GI and RAI, 7 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of RINGTAIL and one more.