Unscramble GEOPHYTE to get 111 words. GEOPHYTE itself is a real word: 17 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. HYPE, HYPO and GOTHY are the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from GEOPHYTE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 6, 9 with 5, 36 with 4, 48 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
There is a single one of the 6-letter words made with GEOPHYTE letters: PEYOTE, 11 points.
The 4-letter words from GEOPHYTE are led by HYPE and HYPO, 12 points each. TYPE, HOPE and TYPO are the familiar ones.
HYP tops the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble GEOPHYTE at 11 points; next come GYP and HEY on 9. GET, TOP and HOT will look familiar.
Keep every letter of GEOPHYTE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with GE · ending in TE · all 8-letter words
GEOPHYTE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. GEOPHYTE is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEOPHYTE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 111) | 86 | 110 | 78 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 25 of them: GOTHY, PEEOY, PEGH, GOETY, HEPT, HYE, PYET, PYOT, GOEY, GYTE, YGOE, ETHE and 13 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: GYPO, GOETH, PHEO, GOTH, PHO, YEET, PO and TE. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: GOY.
This word takes every letter of GEOPHYTE plus a single extra one.