Unscramble DEONTICS and you have 261 words, DEONTICS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 10 reach 10 points, NOTICED, DOCENTS and CESTOID among them. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from DEONTICS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 14 with 7, 41 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 25 with 2.
41 6-letter words in DEONTICS; 13 of them share the top score of 9. SECOND, NOTICE and INSECT are everyday picks.
Among 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DEONTICS, the top score is 8, reached by 18. CODES, COINS and ICONS are the familiar ones.
60 4-letter words from DEONTICS; 15 of them share the top score of 7. CODE, COST and ONCE are everyday picks.
CID, COD and DOC are the top 3-letter words you get when you unscramble DEONTICS, 6 points each. NOT, ONE and ITS will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DEONTICS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in CS · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with CESTOID, CODEINS, COEDITS, CTENOID, DEONTIC, DOCENTS, NOTICED and SECONDI (10 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
DEONTICS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEONTICS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 261) | 204 | 261 | 187 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 57 of them: DEONTICS, CONDIES, COTISED, CODIST, CONDIE, CIDES, COSED, COTISE, DICTS, DITONES, OECIST, SCIENT and 45 more. Words With Friends* skips 17 of them: CISTED, ETICS, IDENTS, ONCET, DINOS, ECOS, TECS, DENI, DESI, DINO, ECO, SOC and 5 more.
With one more tile, the letters of DEONTICS spell the words below.