Unscramble HELICONIA and you have 219 words, HELICONIA itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from HELICONIA split into 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 17 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 52 with 3 and 26 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble HELICONIA, 27 score 10 points, the group's best. CHINA, CLEAN and ALONE are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words from HELICONIA; 15 of them share the top score of 9. EACH, ONCE and NICE are everyday picks.
Of the 52 3-letter words made with HELICONIA letters, 9 score 8 points, the group's best. CAN, ONE and OIL are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of HELICONIA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with HE · ending in IA · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CHALONE, CHOLINE and HELICON (12 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept HELICONIA, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELICONIA itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 219) | 186 | 218 | 166 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 33 of them: NOCHEL, CANEH, COHEN, ELCHI, LINCH, NACHE, CHAL, NACH, ACH, ANCILE, CHA, CHE and 21 more. Words With Friends* skips 20 of them: HELICONIA, ANCHO, CHOIL, CHOLA, CHOLI, LANCH, LOCHE, CHAI, OCHE, HALON, OCH, CEILI and 8 more. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: HAOLE.
These 2 words take every letter of HELICONIA plus a single extra one.