Unscramble DEMOGRAPHIES and you have 428 words, DEMOGRAPHIES itself among them: it scores 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. 12 letters: 5 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from DEMOGRAPHIES by length: 1 with 12 letters, 3 with 10, 15 with 9, 60 with 8, 60 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 49 with 2. None has 11 letters.
SEMAPHORED scores highest among the 10-letter words made with DEMOGRAPHIES letters at 18 points, ahead of EIDOGRAPHS and IDEOGRAPHS on 17.
4 of 15 9-letter words in DEMOGRAPHIES tie at 17 points; none scores more. HOMEPAGES, SEMAPHORE and IDEOGRAPH will look familiar.
Of the 60 8-letter words you get when you unscramble DEMOGRAPHIES, 10 score 16 points, the group's best. HOMEPAGE, HAMPERED and PERISHED are the ones most people know.
9 of 60 7-letter words from DEMOGRAPHIES tie at 15 points; none scores more. HAMPERS, EPHEDRA and GOPHERS will look familiar.
60 6-letter words in DEMOGRAPHIES; 10 of them share the top score of 13. SHAPED, GRAPHS and SHRIMP are everyday picks.
Among 60 5-letter words made with DEMOGRAPHIES letters, the top score is 12, reached by 4. HOMES, PHASE and GRAPH are the familiar ones.
HEMP tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DEMOGRAPHIES at 11 points; next come PEGH on 10 and AHEM on 9. HOME, SHOP and HOPE will look familiar.
Of the 60 3-letter words from DEMOGRAPHIES, 16 score 8 points, the group's best. HAS, HAD and MAP are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DEMOGRAPHIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 12-letter words: starting with DE · ending in ES · all 12-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with GRAPHEMES, HOMEPAGES and PESHMERGA (17 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. DEMOGRAPHIES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEMOGRAPHIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 428) | 342 | 427 | 295 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
85 of the 428 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EIDOGRAPHS, HEMIPODES, EIDOGRAPH, HEMIPODE, HEMIPODS, MAGESHIP, DISHMOP, EMPERISH, GAMPISH, GOPHERED, HEADROPES, HEMIPOD and 73 more. 47 of the 428 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HOMEPAGES, PESHMERGA, HOMEPAGE, MOPHEADS, MOPHEAD, MORPHED, MEDIGAPS, MIDSHORE, ORPHISM, PREGAMED, SHMEARED, GRAMPIES and 35 more. 1 of the 428 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: HEMI.
With one more tile, the letters of DEMOGRAPHIES spell the words below.