Unscramble FORCIPES and you have 225 words, FORCIPES itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, FORCEPS leads with 14 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from FORCIPES split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 20 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 20 with 2.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble FORCIPES, 7 score 10 points, the group's best. PRICE, FORCE and SCORE are the ones most people know.
9 of 60 4-letter words from FORCIPES tie at 9 points; none scores more. FIRE, PICS and CORE will look familiar.
Among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble FORCIPES, FOP leads with 8 points, then CEP and COP on 7. PRO, ICE and SEC are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of FORCIPES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with FO · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
FORCIPES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FORCIPES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FORCIPES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 225) | 181 | 222 | 165 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
43 of the 225 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: COPSIER, PERSICO, PREIFS, PRIEFS, FICOS, PREIF, PRIEF, PSORIC, CREPS, FROISE, SPIF, CORIES and 31 more. 14 of the 225 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PERCS, COPI, ESPOIR, PERC, POSIER, CORS, ECOS, FES, ECO, FE, POS, SOC and 2 more. 2 of the 225 answers are missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: CRIPS and CRIP. 1 of the 225 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
With one more tile, the letters of FORCIPES spell the words below.