27 words come out when you unscramble TAEL, starting with TAEL itself: 4 in Scrabble, 5 in Words With Friends. TAEL has 5 anagrams here, LATE, LEAT, TALE, TEAL and TELA, scoring 4 like TAEL itself. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from TAEL split into 6 with 4 letters, 12 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of TAEL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with TA · ending in EL · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to TAEL:
TAEL first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TAEL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAEL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 27) | 24 | 27 | 23 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
3 of the 27 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LEAT, ELT and EA. 1 of the 27 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of TAEL and one more.