Unscramble PILLARING and you have 169 words, PILLARING itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. PRILLING is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from PILLARING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 10 with 7, 15 with 6, 31 with 5, 60 with 4, 39 with 3 and 12 with 2.
PRILLING is the only one of the 8-letter words in PILLARING; it scores 11 points.
31 5-letter words from PILLARING; 6 of them share the top score of 8. PLAIN, GRILL and GRAIN are everyday picks.
Of the 60 4-letter words in PILLARING, 4 score 7 points, the group's best. PLAN, GIRL and RING are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of PILLARING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with PI · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
What PILLARING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PILLARING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILLARING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 169) | 147 | 167 | 139 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 22 of them: GLAIRIN, GRAIP, PAGRI, PLING, ARLING, PIRAI, PRIAL, RAGINI, RIGLIN, AGRIN, ARILLI, PILA and 10 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: PIANI, LIPA, PALI, LARN, GI and RAI. Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: LARPING and LARP.
This word takes every letter of PILLARING plus a single extra one.