Unscramble HORRIFYING and you have 130 words, HORRIFYING itself among them: it scores 20 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
H43O1R1R1I1F4Y43I1N12G23
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from HORRIFYING by length: 1 with 10 letters, 4 with 7, 12 with 6, 17 with 5, 38 with 4, 40 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 9 or 8 letters.
FOGY and YOGH are the top 4-letter words from HORRIFYING, 11 points each. INFO, RING and IRON will look familiar.
Keep every letter of HORRIFYING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with HO · ending in NG · all 10-letter words
The meaning of HORRIFYING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept HORRIFYING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HORRIFYING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 130) | 98 | 128 | 91 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
31 of the 130 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GRYFON, HOYING, FIRRING, FRORY, FROING, HOIING, FIORIN, HOING, RHY, FIGO, FRORN, FY and 19 more. 7 of the 130 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HONGI, GYNO, GIF, GRR, ORG, GI and OI. 1 of the 130 answers is missing from Scrabble UK: GOY. 1 of the 130 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.