Unscramble GINGELIS to get 120 words. GINGELIS itself is a real word: 10 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 9: 7 of them, GILGIES, GINGELI and GINGLES included. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from GINGELIS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 14 with 6, 22 with 5, 37 with 4, 29 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Of the 37 4-letter words you get when you unscramble GINGELIS, 5 score 6 points, the group's best. LINE, SIGN and LENS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of GINGELIS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with GI · ending in IS · all 8-letter words
What GINGELIS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept GINGELIS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GINGELIS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 120) | 87 | 120 | 80 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GILGIES, GINGLES, GILGIE, GINGES, GINGLE, LIGGES, SEILING, GINGE, GINGS, LIGGE, LIGNES, SILING and 21 more, 33 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: IGGS, IGG, NEGS, GIS, NEG, SIG and GI, 7 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of GINGELIS spell the words below.