Unscramble PENCILING to get 109 words. PENCILING itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
P34E1N12C34I1L12I1N12G23
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from PENCILING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 8 with 7, 13 with 6, 20 with 5, 27 with 4, 32 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Keep every letter of PENCILING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
What PENCILING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PENCILING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENCILING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 109) | 86 | 109 | 78 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
23 of the 109 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CLIPING, CIELING, PICINE, CLIPE, PENING, PINGLE, PINNIE, PLING, GINNEL, INCLE, INGINE, CIEL and 11 more. 8 of the 109 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CEILI, CLEG, INCEL, CIG, LIPE, INNIE, NEG and GI.
Each word below uses all the letters of PENCILING and one more.