Unscramble TUNNELLED and you have 114 words, TUNNELLED itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is TUNNELED, 9 points. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
T1U12N12N12E1L12L12E1D2
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from TUNNELLED split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 13 with 6, 17 with 5, 41 with 4, 30 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Just 1 of the 8-letter words made with TUNNELLED letters: TUNNELED, for 9 points.
25 of 41 4-letter words from TUNNELLED tie at 5 points; none scores more. NEED, TEEN and TELL will look familiar.
Keep every letter of TUNNELLED but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with TU · ending in ED · all 9-letter words
What TUNNELLED means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. TUNNELLED is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUNNELLED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 114) | 92 | 114 | 83 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 22 of them: DENNET, DENTEL, DETENU, DENET, NEELD, TEEND, TELLEN, DEEN, DULE, LEED, TELD, TENUE and 10 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: DETUNE, TENDU, DELT, LEDE, TENNE, LUD, LUN, UTE and TE.