Unscramble BIOTECHS and you have 218 words, BIOTECHS itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. BIOTECH, BITCHES and BOTCHES are the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BIOTECHS split into 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 7, 15 with 6, 51 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 25 with 2.
Among 51 5-letter words from BIOTECHS, the top score is 12, reached by 4. CHEST, CHOSE and CITES are the familiar ones.
CHIB tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BIOTECHS at 11 points; next come BETH and BISH on 9. BEST, BOTH and TECH will look familiar.
Among 60 3-letter words in BIOTECHS, the top score is 8, reached by 9. ITS, HOT and BIT are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of BIOTECHS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BI · ending in HS · all 8-letter words
BIOTECHS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. BIOTECHS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOTECHS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 218) | 156 | 216 | 137 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 60 of them: CHIBS, ECHOIST, TOISECH, CHIB, THEICS, TICHES, COTHS, ICHES, SICHT, THEIC, BOHS, COTH and 48 more. Words With Friends* skips 21 of them: BOTHIE, OCHES, SITCH, TECHS, BISH, ECHT, OCHE, TECH, OCH, SHITE, ETICS, HOS and 9 more. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 2 of them: BOCHES and BOCHE.
These 2 words take every letter of BIOTECHS plus a single extra one.