Unscramble TALE to get 27 words. TALE itself is a real word: 4 points on a Scrabble board, 5 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 4 points: LATE, LEAT, TAEL, TEAL and TELA. 12 shorter words score 3, among them LET, EAT and TEA. 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.
Counting the words from TALE by length: 6 with 4 letters, 12 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of TALE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with TA · ending in LE · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to TALE:
TALE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
TALE works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TALE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 27) | 24 | 27 | 23 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may 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.
These 12 words take every letter of TALE plus a single extra one.