Unscramble FACSIMILE and you have 253 words, FACSIMILE itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is MALEFIC, 14 points. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from FACSIMILE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 9 with 7, 40 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 21 with 2.
Among the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble FACSIMILE, FILMIC and MAFICS tie for first at 13 points. CLAIMS, FISCAL and EMAILS are everyday picks.
Among the 5-letter words from FACSIMILE, MAFIC leads with 12 points, then CAFES and CALFS on 10. FILES, CLAIM and FILMS are the familiar ones.
16 of 60 4-letter words from FACSIMILE tie at 9 points; none scores more. LIFE, FILE and CASE will look familiar.
Among 60 3-letter words in FACSIMILE, the top score is 8, reached by 4. SEA, ICE and SEC are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of FACSIMILE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with FA · ending in LE · all 9-letter words
What FACSIMILE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FACSIMILE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FACSIMILE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 253) | 205 | 248 | 185 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
43 of the 253 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FELICIAS, MAFICS, FELICIA, CIMELIA, FEMALS, LIMACES, CLAMES, FASCI, FEMAL, FLIMS, MALEIC, MASCLE and 31 more. 22 of the 253 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FELSIC, FILMIS, FILMI, MILFS, CAFS, CAMIS, EMICS, FAMS, MILF, CAF, CAMI, CEILIS and 10 more. 3 of the 253 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: ALFS, ALF and FI. 2 of the 253 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Scrabble UK: EMFS and EMF.
These 2 words take every letter of FACSIMILE plus a single extra one.