99 words come out when you unscramble SPARES, starting with SPARES itself: 8 in Scrabble, 9 in Words With Friends. 8 anagrams of SPARES are on the page, ASPERS, PARSES and PASSER included; each is 8 points. 20 shorter words score 7, among them PRESS, SPARE and PARSE. It has 6 letters, 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from SPARES split into 9 with 6 letters, 25 with 5, 30 with 4, 26 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of SPARES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SP · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
The meaning of SPARES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SPARES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPARES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 99) | 90 | 99 | 89 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SPAERS, SPAER, PRE, RASSE, SASER, SARS, EAS, SAR and EA, 9 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SEPS.
These 12 words take every letter of SPARES plus a single extra one.