Unscramble CLOYINGLY and you have 108 words, CLOYINGLY itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is GLYCYL, 15 points. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from CLOYINGLY by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 3 with 7, 10 with 6, 18 with 5, 36 with 4, 27 with 3 and 12 with 2.
COLLYING is the only one of the 8-letter words made with CLOYINGLY letters; it scores 14 points.
GYNY scores highest among the 4-letter words from CLOYINGLY at 11 points, ahead of CLOY and COLY on 9. ONLY, LONG and ICON are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of CLOYINGLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CL · ending in LY · all 9-letter words
What CLOYINGLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
CLOYINGLY 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLOYINGLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 108) | 89 | 107 | 81 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
19 of the 108 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CLYING, GYNY, COLLING, LIONLY, CLY, YGO, CILL, COLL, LOY, NOY, ONY, INGO and 7 more. 8 of the 108 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: LOCING, GYNO, CIG, LOGIN, LOC, LILO, GI and OI. 1 of the 108 answers is missing from Scrabble UK: GOY.