Unscramble DECEIVING to get 130 words. DECEIVING itself is a real word: 16 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, EVINCED leads with 13 points. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from DECEIVING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 17 with 6, 23 with 5, 40 with 4, 37 with 3 and 9 with 2. None has 8 letters.
VICED scores highest among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DECEIVING at 11 points, ahead of CIVIE and GIVED on 10. GIVEN, INDIE and GENIE are the ones most people know.
CIVE and VICE are the top 4-letter words from DECEIVING, 9 points each. NEED, EVEN and GIVE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DECEIVING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
The meaning of DECEIVING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DECEIVING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DECEIVING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 130) | 100 | 130 | 93 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
30 of the 130 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DEEVING, CIDING, GIVED, CIVE, INCEDE, DEEING, DEEV, DINIC, DIVI, NEIVE, CIDE, DIV and 18 more. 7 of the 130 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DEVI, VID, CIG, VIN, DENI, NEG and GI.
With one more tile, the letters of DECEIVING spell the words below.