68 words come out when you unscramble MISSILE, starting with MISSILE itself: 9 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: MISLIES, SIMILES and SMILIES. 5 shorter words score 8, among them SMILES, SIMILE and MISLIE. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of MISSILE in one turn: 59 in Scrabble (9 + 50), 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from MISSILE split into 4 with 7 letters, 5 with 6, 13 with 5, 22 with 4, 16 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of MISSILE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with MI · ending in LE · all 7-letter words
What MISSILE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept MISSILE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| MISSILE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 68) | 61 | 68 | 59 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SIMIS, SIMI, SEILS, SILES, SEIL, SIES and SILE, 7 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SMILIES and MES, 2 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of MISSILE and one more.