Unscramble SLADE and you have 56 words, SLADE itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 6 points: DALES, DEALS, LADES, LASED and LEADS. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
S1L12A1D2E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SLADE split into 6 with 5 letters, 18 with 4, 21 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Keep every letter of SLADE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SL · ending in DE · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with DALES, DEALS, LADES, LASED and LEADS (6 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts SLADE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLADE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 56) | 48 | 56 | 45 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SLADE, DAES, SELD, DAE, SED, SLAE, EAS and EA, 8 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DAS, EDS and DA, 3 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of SLADE spell the words below.