Unscramble BICYCLES to get 85 words. BICYCLES itself is a real word: 17 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. BICYCLE is the best of the shorter words, at 16 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BICYCLES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 5 with 6, 12 with 5, 27 with 4, 27 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of BICYCLES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BI · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
BICYCLES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BICYCLES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BICYCLES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 85) | 66 | 85 | 65 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BICCY, CYCLISE, LECCY, BLEYS, CECILS, LESBIC, SYBIL, BLEY, SCYE, CLY, CIELS, CLIES and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BES.
Each word below uses all the letters of BICYCLES and one more.