Unscramble BOYISHNESS and you have 249 words, BOYISHNESS itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from BOYISHNESS by length: 1 with 10 letters, 10 with 7, 33 with 6, 57 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 28 with 2. None has 9 or 8 letters.
BOYISH tops the 6-letter words made with BOYISHNESS letters at 14 points; next come HONEYS and HOSEYS on 12. BOSSES, SHINES and NOISES will look familiar.
57 5-letter words from BOYISHNESS; 6 of them share the top score of 11. SHOES, NOISE and EBONY are everyday picks.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BOYISHNESS, 4 score 10 points, the group's best. BOYS, SHOE and HOSE are the ones most people know.
Among 60 3-letter words from BOYISHNESS, the top score is 9, reached by 5. YES, BOY and BIN are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of BOYISHNESS for another and you can spell these 4 words:
More 10-letter words: starting with BO · ending in SS · all 10-letter words
BOYISHNESS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BOYISHNESS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOYISHNESS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 249) | 180 | 249 | 166 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BYSSINE, HYENS, NEBISH, HEYS, HYEN, HYES, SHINESS, SYBOE, BESOINS, BISSONS, BOHS, HYE and 57 more, 69 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: HOSEYS, BISHES, HOSEY, BISH, HOSSES, HOSS, SESH, SHEN, SOHS, HOS, SHO, SOH and 2 more, 14 in all.
This word takes every letter of BOYISHNESS plus a single extra one.