152 words come out when you unscramble TENANTING, starting with TENANTING itself: 10 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 8: 7 of them, TANNING, ANTIGEN and TANGENT included. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from TENANTING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 8 with 7, 18 with 6, 17 with 5, 47 with 4, 45 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 8 letters.
23 of 47 4-letter words from TENANTING tie at 5 points; none scores more. ANTI, GAIN and NINE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of TENANTING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with TE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
TENANTING 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 TENANTING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TENANTING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 152) | 111 | 152 | 101 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ANTIENT, EANING, TAEING, TANGIE, TEAING, GAITT, INGAN, NANITE, NGATI, TANGI, TANNIE, AGEN and 29 more, 41 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ATTING, INNAGE, TAGINE, GEAN, GITE, NEG, TEIN, TIAN, GI and TE, 10 in all.