Unscramble CENTIPEDE and you have 173 words, CENTIPEDE itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 13 points, DEPEINCT, INCEPTED and PEINCTED among them. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from CENTIPEDE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 5 with 8, 5 with 7, 21 with 6, 24 with 5, 60 with 4, 43 with 3 and 14 with 2.
The 6-letter words you get when you unscramble CENTIPEDE are led by DEPICT and PIECED, 11 points each. DECENT, DEEPEN and DECEIT are the familiar ones.
CEPE, EPIC and PICE share the top score of 8 among the 4-letter words from CENTIPEDE. NEED, TEEN and EDIT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of CENTIPEDE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CE · ending in DE · all 9-letter words
CENTIPEDE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
CENTIPEDE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CENTIPEDE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 173) | 122 | 173 | 115 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DEPEINCT, PEINCTED, PENTICED, PIECENED, EPICEDE, PEDETIC, PENTICE, PEINCT, PICENE, PIECEN, DEEPIE, INCEDE and 39 more, 51 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: PEDI, DEP, IDENT, DENI, TEC, TEIN and TE, 7 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of CENTIPEDE plus a single extra one.