Unscramble BASIFIES to get 75 words. BASIFIES itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, FIBS and FABS lead with 9 points. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BASIFIES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 11 with 5, 20 with 4, 25 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Trade one tile of BASIFIES for another and you can spell these 5 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with BA · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What BASIFIES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BASIFIES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASIFIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 75) | 64 | 74 | 57 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 10 of them: ABIES, BASSE, FEIS, FAE, SIF, SAIS, SIES, EAS, SAI and EA. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: FABS, FAB, BAES, FES, BAE, BES and FE. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: FI.
This word takes every letter of BASIFIES plus a single extra one.