Unscramble ROOTLIKE to get 165 words. ROOTLIKE itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 10: 8 of them, ROOKIE, LOOKER and KILTER included. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from ROOTLIKE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 20 with 6, 22 with 5, 60 with 4, 43 with 3 and 18 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words made with ROOTLIKE letters: TROOLIE, 7 points.
Of the 60 4-letter words from ROOTLIKE, 26 score 8 points, the group's best. LIKE, LOOK and ROLE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of ROOTLIKE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with RO · ending in KE · all 8-letter words
ROOTLIKE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ROOTLIKE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROOTLIKE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 165) | 132 | 164 | 119 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 32 of them: KIORE, KOORI, KERO, KORO, LIRK, LOKE, REIK, ROKE, TOKO, EIK, ERK, KET and 20 more. Words With Friends* skips 13 of them: LOOKIE, LOOKIT, KELT, KORI, OIK, KI, OK, ROOTLE, LOTO, LOR, ROO, OI and 1 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: ITER.