Unscramble PHYSALIS and you have 190 words, PHYSALIS itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. SPLASHY and APISHLY are the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from PHYSALIS split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 15 with 6, 49 with 5, 60 with 4, 48 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Of the 49 5-letter words from PHYSALIS, 5 score 13 points, the group's best. SHIPS, PLAYS and SLASH are the ones most people know.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PHYSALIS are led by HYPS and SYPH, 12 points each. PLAY, SAYS and SHIP are the familiar ones.
HYP scores highest among the 3-letter words from PHYSALIS at 11 points, ahead of HAY and SHY on 9. HAS, SAY and PAY are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of PHYSALIS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
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PHYSALIS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PHYSALIS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHYSALIS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 190) | 174 | 190 | 158 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
16 of the 190 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PHYSALIS, HIPLY, HIYA, PISSY, LASSY, AHIS, LAHS, LIPAS, PALIS, AHI, AHS, LAH and 4 more. 16 of the 190 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SLYISH, HAILY, SPLISH, SPYALS, SHAPS, SPYAL, YAHS, PAHS, SLISH, SPIALS, HASS, SPIAL and 4 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of PHYSALIS and one more.