Unscramble PLIE to get 13 words. PLIE itself is a real word: 6 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. PLIE has 2 anagrams here, LIPE and PILE, scoring 6 like PLIE itself. 4 shorter words score 5, among them PIE, LIP and PEL. It has 4 letters, 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from PLIE by length: 3 with 4 letters, 6 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of PLIE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with PL · ending in IE · all 4-letter words
What PLIE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PLIE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLIE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 13) | 11 | 13 | 10 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LEP and PEL, 2 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LIPE.
These 12 words take every letter of PLIE plus a single extra one.