Unscramble PILGARLIC and you have 118 words, PILGARLIC itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from PILGARLIC by length: 1 with 9 letters, 5 with 6, 22 with 5, 47 with 4, 34 with 3 and 9 with 2. None has 8 or 7 letters.
8 of 47 4-letter words from PILGARLIC tie at 8 points; none scores more. CALL, GIRL and CLIP will look familiar.
Keep every letter of PILGARLIC but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PI · ending in IC · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by PLICAL (10 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
PILGARLIC works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILGARLIC itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 118) | 99 | 116 | 89 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PICRA, CALP, CAPI, CRAIG, GRAIP, PAGRI, PIRAI, PRIAL, ARILLI, CAG, CILL, CIRL and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CAPRI, CIG, CRIA, LIPA, PALI, CAL, GI and RAI, 8 in all. Not in Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: CRIP and LARP, 2 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of PILGARLIC spell the words below.