Unscramble POISONOUS to get 129 words. POISONOUS itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 9: 4 of them, POISONS, POISSON and POUSSIN included. It has 9 letters, 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from POISONOUS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 4 with 7, 6 with 6, 18 with 5, 40 with 4, 42 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 40 4-letter words you get when you unscramble POISONOUS, 27 score 6 points, the group's best. SOON, SONS and SPIN are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of POISONOUS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
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The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by POISONS and SPINOUS (9 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
POISONOUS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POISONOUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 129) | 100 | 129 | 88 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
29 of the 129 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: POISSON, POUSSIN, PSIONS, NOOPS, NOUPS, PSION, SOOPS, NOOP, NOUP, OUPS, POSS, SOOP and 17 more. 12 of the 129 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: INSPOS, INSPO, POOS, POO, POS, ONOS, PO, UNIS, ONO, SUS, UNI and OI.