90 words come out when you unscramble PINGUINS, starting with PINGUINS itself: 11 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, SNIPING and PINGUIN lead with 10 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from PINGUINS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 6 with 6, 6 with 5, 30 with 4, 34 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Keep every letter of PINGUINS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PI · ending in NS · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with SNIPING (10 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PINGUINS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINGUINS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 90) | 72 | 90 | 65 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 18 of them: PINGUINS, PINGUIN, GUPS, SINING, SPUG, GUP, GINN, INGS, SNIG, GUS, ING, SUG and 6 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: NUGS, GIS, NUG, SIG, UNIS, GI and UNI.
With one more tile, the letters of PINGUINS spell the words below.