Unscramble PENICILLIN and you have 77 words, PENICILLIN itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. It has 10 letters, 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
P34E1N12I1C34I1L12L12I1N12
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from PENICILLIN split into 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 9, 3 with 7, 8 with 6, 12 with 5, 24 with 4, 21 with 3 and 7 with 2. None has 8 letters.
There is a single one of the 9-letter words in PENICILLIN: PENICILLI, 13 points.
Trade one tile of PENICILLIN for another and you can spell these 2 words:
More 10-letter words: starting with PE · ending in IN · all 10-letter words
Short meanings for the 7 highest-scoring answers, starting with PENICIL (11 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. PENICILLIN 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PENICILLIN itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 77) | 60 | 77 | 56 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PENICILLI, PICINE, CLIPE, PENNILL, ILLIPE, PENILL, PILLIE, PINNIE, INCLE, CIEL, CILL, PELL and 5 more, 17 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CEILI, INCEL, LIPE and INNIE, 4 in all.
This word takes every letter of PENICILLIN plus a single extra one.