Unscramble SELDOM and you have 105 words, SELDOM itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. SELDOM has 1 anagram here, MODELS, scoring 9 like SELDOM itself. The best shorter words score 8: 9 of them, MODEL, MODES and DEMOS included. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from SELDOM by length: 2 with 6 letters, 17 with 5, 37 with 4, 35 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Keep every letter of SELDOM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SE · ending in OM · all 6-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with MODELS (9 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SELDOM, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SELDOM itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 105) | 85 | 105 | 78 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 20 of them: LOMED, MOLED, MOSED, LOMES, DELOS, LOME, LOSED, MOES, MOSE, OLMS, SOLDE, DELO and 8 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: MEDS, EMOS, EMO, MES, OLDE, SOM and EDS.
These 12 words take every letter of SELDOM plus a single extra one.