34 words come out when you unscramble FLIPFLOP, starting with FLIPFLOP itself: 18 in Scrabble, 22 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 4 reach 9 points, OFF, FLIP and FLOP among them. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from FLIPFLOP by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 5, 10 with 4, 12 with 3 and 10 with 2. None has 7 or 6 letters.
There is a single one of the 5-letter words in FLIPFLOP: FILLO, 8 points.
Keep every letter of FLIPFLOP but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with FL · ending in OP · all 8-letter words
FLIPFLOP first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
FLIPFLOP is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FLIPFLOP itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 34) | 32 | 33 | 27 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
5 of the 34 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FLIPFLOP, LIPO, LILO, PO and OI. 1 of the 34 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI. 1 of the 34 answers is missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: IO.
This word takes every letter of FLIPFLOP plus a single extra one.