Unscramble SWEAL and you have 50 words, SWEAL itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: ALEWS, SWALE, WALES and WEALS. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SWEAL split into 5 with 5 letters, 17 with 4, 18 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of SWEAL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SW · ending in AL · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; SWALE, WALES and WEALS (8 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SWEAL is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWEAL itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 50) | 41 | 50 | 40 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
9 of the 50 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALEWS, SWEAL, ALEW, WASE, WELS, LEW, SLAE, EAS and EA. 1 of the 50 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: EW.
With one more tile, the letters of SWEAL spell the words below.