Unscramble MIDWIFES and you have 108 words, MIDWIFES itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is MIDWIFE, 16 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from MIDWIFES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 3 with 6, 15 with 5, 36 with 4, 35 with 3 and 16 with 2.
FEWS, WIFE and WIFI are the top 4-letter words from MIDWIFES, 10 points each. SIDE, WIDE and SEMI will look familiar.
Trade one tile of MIDWIFES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with MI · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
MIDWIFES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
MIDWIFES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIDWIFES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 108) | 87 | 104 | 78 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
17 of the 108 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: WIFIES, WIFIE, FEWS, FIDES, WEIDS, WEMS, DEIF, WEID, WEM, FEIS, IWI, SIF and 5 more. 11 of the 108 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MISFED, DIFS, DEF, DIF, MEDS, FES, DESI, EW, FE, MES and EDS. 2 of the 108 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: WIFI and FI. 2 of the 108 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Scrabble UK: EMFS and EMF.