Unscramble UNCAPING and you have 97 words, UNCAPING itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, PUNCING leads with 12 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from UNCAPING split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 9 with 6, 13 with 5, 26 with 4, 34 with 3 and 13 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in UNCAPING: PUNCING, 12 points.
Keep every letter of UNCAPING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with UN · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CAPING and PACING (11 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
UNCAPING 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNCAPING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 97) | 71 | 97 | 64 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
26 of the 97 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: UNCAPING, PUNCING, NAPING, PANING, PUCAN, CAPI, CAUP, PUNANI, PUNGA, CANG, GAUP, PANNI and 14 more. 7 of the 97 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CAPING, GUAC, UNICA, CIG, NUG, GI and UNI.
These 5 words take every letter of UNCAPING plus a single extra one.