Unscramble SCAMMING and you have 144 words, SCAMMING itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. CAMMING is the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SCAMMING by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 7 with 6, 23 with 5, 53 with 4, 45 with 3 and 13 with 2.
53 4-letter words from SCAMMING; 9 of them share the top score of 8. SIGN, MAIN and GAIN are everyday picks.
Of the 45 3-letter words from SCAMMING, 5 score 7 points, the group's best. CAN, MAN and GAS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SCAMMING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SC · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
SCAMMING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
SCAMMING works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCAMMING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 144) | 114 | 144 | 98 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 30 of them: CAMMING, SAMMING, MAGISM, MASING, CANGS, MANGS, MINGS, CAGS, CANG, GISM, MANG, MING and 18 more. Words With Friends* skips 16 of them: CAMIS, CAMI, MAMS, MICS, CIGS, MAM, MANIS, MIC, CIG, MANI, SIGNA, AGS and 4 more.
With one more tile, the letters of SCAMMING spell the words below.