Unscramble SPECIAL and you have 199 words, SPECIAL itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 11 points: PLAICES. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of SPECIAL at once for 61 in Scrabble (11 + 50) or 49 in Words With Friends (14 + 35).
PLCEISA unscrambles to SPECIAL: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for spicale, capiles, clipsea, scalepi, aceslip, spelica, acelips, eclapsi, cipsale or palesic? They use the same letters as SPECIAL, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from SPECIAL split into 2 with 7 letters, 14 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 49 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SPECIAL, 21 score 9 points, the group's best. PLACE, SPACE and SCALE are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words from SPECIAL, the top score is 8, reached by 15. CASE, PICS and CLIP are the familiar ones.
5 of 49 3-letter words made with SPECIAL letters tie at 7 points; none scores more. SEA, ICE and SEC will look familiar.
Trade one tile of SPECIAL for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with SP · ending in AL · all 7-letter words
The meaning of SPECIAL, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SPECIAL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPECIAL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 199) | 165 | 199 | 157 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
34 of the 199 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CAPLES, CLIPES, CALPS, CAPLE, CLIPE, SCAPI, CALP, CAPI, LAIPSE, PILEAS, CIELS, CLAES and 22 more. 8 of the 199 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PLICAS, LIPAS, PALIS, CALS, LIPA, LIPE, PALI and CAL.
These 12 words take every letter of SPECIAL plus a single extra one.