Unscramble PHONOTYPES to get 265 words. PHONOTYPES itself is a real word: 20 points on a Scrabble board, 21 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is PHONOTYPE, 19 points. The 10 letters split into 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PHONOTYPES by length: 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 9, 6 with 8, 12 with 7, 39 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 25 with 2.
SHOPPY tops the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble PHONOTYPES at 16 points; next come PHONEY and PHOOEY on 14. PHOTOS, PHONES and PYTHON will look familiar.
HOPPY scores highest among the 5-letter words from PHONOTYPES at 15 points, ahead of HYPES and HYPOS on 13. PHONE, PHOTO and TYPES are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words in PHONOTYPES; 4 of them share the top score of 12. TYPE, SHOP and HOPE are everyday picks.
Among the 3-letter words made with PHONOTYPES letters, HYP leads with 11 points, then HEY and HOY on 9. YES, HOT and YET are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of PHONOTYPES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with PH · ending in ES · all 10-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with SYNTHPOP (18 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PHONOTYPES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHONOTYPES itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 265) | 205 | 265 | 178 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
60 of the 265 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PHOTOPSY, POTSHOP, SHYPOO, PSYOP, TOPPY, YSHENT, HYENS, PHEONS, PONEYS, POYNTS, POYSON, SYTHE and 48 more. 27 of the 265 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PHONOTYPES, PHONOTYPE, SYNTHPOP, HONEYPOTS, HONEYPOT, SHOPPY, POOPY, HOSEY, POTHOS, PTOOEY, PHEOS, POSEY and 15 more.
With one more tile, the letters of PHONOTYPES spell the words below.