Unscramble BLACKFLIES and you have 282 words, BLACKFLIES itself among them: it scores 21 in Scrabble and 25 in Words With Friends. 10 letters: 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BLACKFLIES split into 1 with 10 letters, 3 with 9, 7 with 8, 17 with 7, 52 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2.
52 6-letter words from BLACKFLIES; 4 of them share the top score of 15. FISCAL, CABLES and LABELS are everyday picks.
4 of 60 5-letter words from BLACKFLIES tie at 14 points; none scores more. BLACK, BASIC and CABLE will look familiar.
FECK scores highest among the 4-letter words in BLACKFLIES at 13 points, ahead of BACK and BECK on 12. FACE, LACK and KILL are the ones most people know.
Among the 3-letter words made with BLACKFLIES letters, KAF, KEF and KIF tie for first at 10 points. ASK, ICE and SEC are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of BLACKFLIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with BL · ending in ES · all 10-letter words
What BLACKFLIES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. BLACKFLIES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKFLIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 282) | 224 | 280 | 203 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
56 of the 282 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BACKFILES, BACKFILE, FICKLES, BACKIES, BACKIE, FLAKIES, FAIKES, ALECKS, CLEIKS, FAIBLES, FAIKS, FIKES and 44 more. 21 of the 282 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FLICKABLE, FAKIES, FAKIE, FILKS, FLAKS, FELSIC, FILK, ICKS, ACK, ALKIE, CAFS, FABS and 9 more. 2 of the 282 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ALF and FI.