100 words come out when you unscramble BIPHENYL, starting with BIPHENYL itself: 18 in Scrabble, 20 in Words With Friends. PHENYL is the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
B34I1P34H43E1N12Y43L12
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from BIPHENYL split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 7 with 5, 34 with 4, 41 with 3 and 15 with 2. None has 7 letters.
HYPE tops the 4-letter words from BIPHENYL at 12 points; next come HYEN and HYLE on 10. HELP, LINE and PINE will look familiar.
Among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble BIPHENYL, HYP leads with 11 points, then HEY and HYE on 9. BIN, HIP and PIN are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of BIPHENYL but one, change that one, and you get:
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What BIPHENYL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BIPHENYL 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIPHENYL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 100) | 83 | 100 | 80 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
17 of the 100 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HYEN, HYLE, BHEL, BLEY, HYE, PYNE, LYNE, BEIN, BENI, BIEN, NYE, PENI and 5 more. 3 of the 100 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HIPLY, BLINY and LIPE.
This word takes every letter of BIPHENYL plus a single extra one.