Unscramble APHONOUS and you have 169 words, APHONOUS itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is UNHOOPS, 12 points. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from APHONOUS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 4 with 6, 21 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2.
UNHOOPS is the only one of the 7-letter words made with APHONOUS letters; it scores 12 points.
Among 60 4-letter words from APHONOUS, the top score is 9, reached by 19. SHOP, PUSH and SOAP are the familiar ones.
7 of 60 3-letter words from APHONOUS tie at 8 points; none scores more. HAS, SUN and SON will look familiar.
Keep every letter of APHONOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with AP · ending in US · all 8-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; PHONOS and UNHASP (11 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
APHONOUS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| APHONOUS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 169) | 123 | 169 | 104 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 46 of them: APHONOUS, UNHOOPS, UNHOOP, HAPUS, POSHO, PUHAS, HAPU, HUPS, PAHS, POHS, PUHA, HAUNS and 34 more. Words With Friends* skips 19 of them: UNHASP, PHOS, PHO, HAOS, AHS, APOS, HOO, HOS, OPAS, POOS, SHO, SOH and 7 more.