247 words come out when you unscramble TAUNTINGLY, starting with TAUNTINGLY itself: 14 in Scrabble, 18 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are UNGAINLY and UNLAYING, 12 points each. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
T1A1U12N12T1I1N12G23L12Y43
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from TAUNTINGLY split into 1 with 10 letters, 5 with 8, 12 with 7, 30 with 6, 57 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2. None has 9 letters.
10 of 30 6-letter words from TAUNTINGLY tie at 10 points; none scores more. GUILTY, TUNING and LAYING will look familiar.
Among 57 5-letter words you get when you unscramble TAUNTINGLY, the top score is 9, reached by 9. GIANT, UNITY and LYING are the familiar ones.
8 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble TAUNTINGLY tie at 8 points; none scores more. ANTI, GAIN and TINY will look familiar.
Of the 60 3-letter words from TAUNTINGLY, 5 score 7 points, the group's best. ANY, GAY and INN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of TAUNTINGLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with TA · ending in LY · all 10-letter words
The meaning of TAUNTINGLY, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TAUNTINGLY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAUNTINGLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 247) | 191 | 246 | 178 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
55 of the 247 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GIANTLY, LYTING, NYING, GULY, GYAL, GYAN, TANLING, TANTY, TATUING, TINTY, TANGUN, TUNY and 43 more. 13 of the 247 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: GLINTY, LAYIN, LINNY, ATTING, LIGNAN, TIYN, TYIN, YAG, AGLU, LATU, NUG, GI and 1 more. 1 of the 247 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: UGLI.