86 words come out when you unscramble ICEBOXES, starting with ICEBOXES itself: 19 in Scrabble, 21 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are ICEBOX, COXIBS and XEBECS, 17 points each. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
I1C34E1B34O1X8E1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from ICEBOXES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 6, 11 with 5, 19 with 4, 34 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of ICEBOXES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with IC · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What ICEBOXES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. ICEBOXES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ICEBOXES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 86) | 69 | 86 | 63 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 17 of them: COXIBS, COXIB, EXIES, OXIES, EXO, BOSIE, BOIS, COSE, SECO, BOI, OBS, OB and 5 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: OXIC, ECOS, BES, ECO, SOC and OI.
This word takes every letter of ICEBOXES plus a single extra one.