Unscramble NEMATOCIDES and you have 437 words, NEMATOCIDES itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. MACEDOINES and NEMATOCIDE are the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. 11 letters: 5 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from NEMATOCIDES by length: 1 with 11 letters, 3 with 10, 30 with 9, 60 with 8, 60 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 43 with 2.
Among the 10-letter words made with NEMATOCIDES letters, MACEDOINES and NEMATOCIDE tie for first at 15 points.
7 of 30 9-letter words in NEMATOCIDES tie at 14 points; none scores more. DOMINATES, ANECDOTES and COMEDIANS will look familiar.
60 8-letter words from NEMATOCIDES; 18 of them share the top score of 13. DISTANCE, DOMESTIC and SEMANTIC are everyday picks.
14 of 60 7-letter words you get when you unscramble NEMATOCIDES tie at 12 points; none scores more. INCOMES, CINEMAS and CANDIES will look familiar.
Of the 60 6-letter words made with NEMATOCIDES letters, 7 score 11 points, the group's best. INCOME, CINEMA and ATOMIC are the ones most people know.
60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble NEMATOCIDES; 4 of them share the top score of 10. COMES, CODES and CITED are everyday picks.
Of the 60 4-letter words from NEMATOCIDES, 17 score 8 points, the group's best. MADE, CODE and COME are the ones most people know.
60 3-letter words in NEMATOCIDES; 4 of them share the top score of 7. CAN, MAN and MEN are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of NEMATOCIDES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 11-letter words: starting with NE · ending in ES · all 11-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with COMEDIANS, DECIMATES, DEMONIACS, MEDICANTS and MEDICATES (14 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. NEMATOCIDES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEMATOCIDES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 437) | 353 | 437 | 313 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
84 of the 437 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CODENAMES, CESTOIDEAN, CNEMIDES, CODENAME, EMICATED, MANDIOCS, MECONATES, ACOEMETI, CAMSTONE, COSTEANED, DECIMES, EMICATES and 72 more. 40 of the 437 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MEDICANTS, COMEDIST, MEDICANT, MENISCATE, NEMATICS, OCEANSIDE, STAMINODE, ACTIONED, COSMID, DAEMONES, DANCIEST, DEMENTIS and 28 more.
With one more tile, the letters of NEMATOCIDES spell the words below.