Unscramble WAVEFRONT to get 225 words. WAVEFRONT itself is a real word: 18 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
W4A1V45E1F4R1O1N12T1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from WAVEFRONT by length: 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 7, 13 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 27 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble WAVEFRONT, 11 score 11 points, the group's best. AFTER, WATER and FRONT are the ones most people know.
9 of 60 4-letter words from WAVEFRONT tie at 10 points; none scores more. OVER, TOWN and FORT will look familiar.
Of the 60 3-letter words from WAVEFRONT, 6 score 9 points, the group's best. NEW, NOW and TWO are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of WAVEFRONT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with WA · ending in NT · all 9-letter words
WAVEFRONT first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
WAVEFRONT is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAVEFRONT itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 225) | 177 | 224 | 165 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
47 of the 225 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FETWA, NAVEW, VAWTE, VENATOR, AFRONT, FAW, FORANE, VORANT, WOF, AWETO, AWNER, FEART and 35 more. 12 of the 225 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: WAVEFRONT, FAVER, FAV, NOVATE, FREON, TREFA, AFRO, NAV, OWT, EW, FE and TE. 1 of the 225 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: VON.
This word takes every letter of WAVEFRONT plus a single extra one.