49 words come out when you unscramble TUANS, starting with TUANS itself: 5 in Scrabble, 7 in Words With Friends. TUANS has 5 anagrams here, ASTUN, AUNTS, SAUNT, STAUN and TUNAS, scoring 5 like TUANS itself. Among the shorter answers, 15 reach 4 points, NUTS, AUNT and TUNA among them. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from TUANS split into 6 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 18 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of TUANS but one, change that one, and you get:
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Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; AUNTS and TUNAS (5 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
TUANS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUANS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 49) | 37 | 49 | 34 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
12 of the 49 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ASTUN, SAUNT, STAUN, TUANS, NATS, SANT, SAUT, TUAN, ANS, NAS, NAT and ST. 3 of the 49 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: STAN, ATS and SAN.
These 12 words take every letter of TUANS plus a single extra one.