119 words come out when you unscramble PICONGS, starting with PICONGS itself: 12 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 12 points: COPINGS, COPSING and SCOPING. Of the shorter words, COPING and PICONG lead with 11 points. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. All 7 tiles of PICONGS in one turn: 62 in Scrabble (12 + 50), 51 in Words With Friends (16 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from PICONGS by length: 4 with 7 letters, 9 with 6, 17 with 5, 36 with 4, 39 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 36 4-letter words from PICONGS, 4 score 8 points, the group's best. SIGN, PICS and SONG are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PICONGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with PI · ending in GS · all 7-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with COPINGS and SCOPING (12 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: PICONGS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PICONGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 119) | 99 | 119 | 87 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
20 of the 119 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: COPSING, PICONGS, PICONG, COSING, PSION, SCOG, GIOS, GONS, INGO, INGS, SNIG, GIO and 8 more. 12 of the 119 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: COPI, CIGS, INSPO, CIG, POS, SOC, GIS, GOS, PO, SIG, GI and OI.
These 6 words take every letter of PICONGS plus a single extra one.