Unscramble HYDROGEL and you have 176 words, HYDROGEL itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. HEDGY is the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from HYDROGEL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 6, 33 with 5, 60 with 4, 59 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 7 letters.
HEDGY tops the 5-letter words made with HYDROGEL letters at 13 points; next come HOYED and HYDRO on 12. OLDER, LODGE and GLORY will look familiar.
HYED, YODH and YOGH share the top score of 11 among the 4-letter words from HYDROGEL. GOLD, HELD and HOLD are the ones most people know.
59 3-letter words you get when you unscramble HYDROGEL; 5 of them share the top score of 9. OLD, RED and GOD are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of HYDROGEL for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with HY · ending in EL · all 8-letter words
What HYDROGEL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept HYDROGEL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HYDROGEL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 176) | 134 | 175 | 129 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
42 of the 176 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOYED, HYLEG, RHODY, HYED, GOLDY, GRYDE, GYELD, HERY, HYLE, ELOGY, GOYLE, HYE and 30 more. 5 of the 176 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: GRODY, DOH, YER, ORG and LOR. 1 of the 176 answers is missing from Scrabble UK: GOY.
With one more tile, the letters of HYDROGEL spell the words below.