Unscramble AUTOLYSIS and you have 231 words, AUTOLYSIS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
A1U12T1O1L12Y43S1I1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from AUTOLYSIS split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 7 with 7, 17 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 59 with 3 and 26 with 2.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in AUTOLYSIS: OUTSAILS, 8 points.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble AUTOLYSIS, 20 score 8 points, the group's best. LISTS, AUTOS and LOTUS are the ones most people know.
14 of 60 4-letter words from AUTOLYSIS tie at 7 points; none scores more. ALSO, LIST and LAST will look familiar.
Of the 59 3-letter words in AUTOLYSIS, 14 score 6 points, the group's best. OUT, ITS and SAY are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of AUTOLYSIS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with AU · ending in IS · all 9-letter words
What AUTOLYSIS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
AUTOLYSIS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUTOLYSIS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 231) | 177 | 231 | 161 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
54 of the 231 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TOSSILY, TYLOSIS, STYLOS, SOILY, STYLO, TOSSY, TOUSY, AYUS, LOYS, TAYS, AYU, LOY and 42 more. 16 of the 231 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: OUTSAYS, OUTSAY, LASSY, OATY, YOUS, TULSIS, YAS, LASSI, LOTSA, SALUT, LATU, LIAS and 4 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of AUTOLYSIS and one more.