Unscramble SNELLEST and you have 120 words, SNELLEST itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
S1N12E1L12L12E1S1T1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SNELLEST split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 13 with 6, 30 with 5, 44 with 4, 21 with 3 and 8 with 2.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SNELLEST come to 44, each scoring 4 points. TEEN, LESS and SELL are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SNELLEST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SN · ending in ST · all 8-letter words
What SNELLEST means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SNELLEST, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNELLEST itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 120) | 89 | 120 | 80 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TELLENS, SLEEST, STEENS, STELLS, TELLEN, ETENS, LESTS, NETES, SELES, SNEES, STEEN, STELL and 19 more, 31 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ESNES, SENES, SENTS, ESNE, ESSE, ESTS, EST, TES and TE, 9 in all.
This word takes every letter of SNELLEST plus a single extra one.