Unscramble PESTERINGLY and you have 394 words, PESTERINGLY itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 14: 7 of them, PRESENTLY, REPLYING and EPIGYNES included. The 11 letters split into 3 vowels and 8 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from PESTERINGLY split into 1 with 11 letters, 12 with 9, 60 with 8, 60 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 10 letters.
Among 60 8-letter words in PESTERINGLY, the top score is 14, reached by 4. STERLING, ENTIRELY and SLEEPING are the familiar ones.
12 of 60 7-letter words from PESTERINGLY tie at 13 points; none scores more. RELYING, STYLING and SYRINGE will look familiar.
Of the 60 6-letter words you get when you unscramble PESTERINGLY, 11 score 12 points, the group's best. ENERGY, TRYING and PLENTY are the ones most people know.
60 5-letter words in PESTERINGLY; 5 of them share the top score of 11. REPLY, ENTRY and TYPES are everyday picks.
GYPS scores highest among the 4-letter words made with PESTERINGLY letters at 10 points, ahead of ESPY and PILY on 9. TYPE, EYES and GREY are the ones most people know.
GYP tops the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble PESTERINGLY at 9 points; next come PLY and PRY on 8. GET, YES and YET will look familiar.
Keep every letter of PESTERINGLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 11-letter words: starting with PE · ending in LY · all 11-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; EPIGYNES, PRESENTLY, REPLYING, RETYPING and SPLINTERY (14 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: PESTERINGLY is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PESTERINGLY itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 394) | 290 | 393 | 270 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 104 of them: PESTERINGLY, YELPINGS, GILPEYS, PERSEITY, PEYSING, PRYINGS, PRYSING, ESTREPING, GILPEY, GREYLIST, GRYPES, PERENTY and 92 more. Words With Friends* skips 20 of them: EPIGYNES, EPIGYNE, SPRITELY, TYPINGS, RINGLETY, SPRINGLET, STEEPLING, STRIPEY, YEETING, GLINTY, GYNIES, GREENLIT and 8 more. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: GYPSTER.