No word spells TURNIPA. Unscramble TURNIPA instead and you have 145 words, and the best are PURITAN and UPTRAIN at 9 points each. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from TURNIPA by length: 2 with 7 letters, 5 with 6, 23 with 5, 50 with 4, 49 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Among 50 4-letter words you get when you unscramble TURNIPA, the top score is 6, reached by 25. PART, UNIT and TURN are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of TURNIPA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with PU · ending in AN · all 7-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; PURITAN (9 points) takes the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
TURNIPA is not playable as it is in any of the three, yet its letters form 145 words that are.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TURNIPA itself | No | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 145) | 114 | 145 | 107 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
31 of the 145 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: UPTRAIN, PRUINA, TIPUNA, PARTI, PRUNT, RUPIA, UPRAN, PATU, PUIR, RIPT, TAPU, UPTA and 19 more. 7 of the 145 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: UNPAIR, PTUI, NAIRU, URP, TIAN, RAI and UNI.
With one more tile, the letters of TURNIPA spell the words below.