Unscramble DONSIE to get 110 words. DONSIE itself is a real word: 7 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: NOISED and ONSIDE. 11 shorter words score 6, among them NODES, NOSED and EIDOS. It has 6 letters, 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from DONSIE by length: 3 with 6 letters, 13 with 5, 37 with 4, 38 with 3 and 19 with 2.
Of the 37 4-letter words from DONSIE, 27 score 5 points, the group's best. DOES, SEND and SIDE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DONSIE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with DO · ending in IE · all 6-letter words
What DONSIE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DONSIE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DONSIE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 110) | 85 | 110 | 79 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 25 of them: DENIS, SDEIN, SINED, DOEN, NEDS, NIDS, NIED, SIND, SNOD, DEI, DSO, IDE and 13 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: DINOS, DENI, DESI, DINO, EDS and OI.
These 12 words take every letter of DONSIE plus a single extra one.