Unscramble DIPHTHERIC and you have 236 words, DIPHTHERIC itself among them: it scores 21 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. HITCHED and HITCHIER are the best of the shorter words, at 16 points. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from DIPHTHERIC split into 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 8, 17 with 7, 29 with 6, 57 with 5, 60 with 4, 54 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 9 letters.
HITCHED scores highest among the 7-letter words in DIPHTHERIC at 16 points, ahead of CHIRPED and HITCHER on 15. PREDICT, PITCHER and PITCHED are the ones most people know.
Among the 6-letter words from DIPHTHERIC, CERIPH, CIPHER and RECHIP tie for first at 13 points. CREDIT, DIRECT and PRICED are everyday picks.
CHETH, HECHT and HITCH share the top score of 13 among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble DIPHTHERIC. PRICE, THIRD and TRIED are the ones most people know.
The best of the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DIPHTHERIC is HECH, 12 points; CHIP and PECH on 11 follow. TECH, TRIP and DIET are everyday picks.
HEH tops the 3-letter words from DIPHTHERIC at 9 points; next come CHE and CHI on 8. RED, HIT and DIE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DIPHTHERIC but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with DI · ending in IC · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by HITCHED (16 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
DIPHTHERIC 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIPHTHERIC itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 236) | 183 | 235 | 168 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
53 of the 236 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DIPHTHERIC, HITCHIER, CHIRTED, HECHT, RECHIP, RICHTED, HECH, RICHED, TICHIER, DICHT, HITHE, ICHED and 41 more. 14 of the 236 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PERCID, TRICEP, ECHT, TECH, PERC, PERITI, CRED, PEDI, RECIT, CERT, CRIT, DEP and 2 more. 1 of the 236 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: CRIP.