39 words come out when you unscramble FLIES, starting with FLIES itself: 8 in Scrabble, 9 in Words With Friends. FLIES has 3 anagrams here, FILES, LIEFS and LIFES, scoring 8 like FLIES itself. Among the shorter answers, 8 reach 7 points, LIFE, FILE and SELF among them. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from FLIES by length: 4 with 5 letters, 13 with 4, 13 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of FLIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with FL · ending in ES · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to FLIES:
The meaning of FLIES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FLIES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 39) | 31 | 38 | 29 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
7 of the 39 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LIEFS, LIFES, ELFS, FEIS, SIF, SEIL and SILE. 2 of the 39 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FES and FE. 1 of the 39 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
With one more tile, the letters of FLIES spell the words below.