Unscramble PIXELATE and you have 156 words, PIXELATE itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is EXPIATE, 16 points. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PIXELATE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 3 with 6, 28 with 5, 52 with 4, 49 with 3 and 20 with 2.
EXPAT, EXPEL and PIXEL are the top 5-letter words from PIXELATE, 14 points each. PLATE, ELITE and LATEX will look familiar.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PIXELATE are led by APEX and PLEX, 13 points each. LATE, TAPE and EXIT are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of PIXELATE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PI · ending in TE · all 8-letter words
What PIXELATE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PIXELATE, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIXELATE itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 156) | 137 | 156 | 129 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EXEAT, TEX, PELTAE, PELTA, PILAE, LEEP, PELA, PIET, PILA, LEP, PEL, EALE and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: PIXELATE, PLEX, TIX, EPILATE, LIPA, LIPE, PALI and TE, 8 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of PIXELATE spell the words below.