237 words come out when you unscramble POLYGYNIAN, starting with POLYGYNIAN itself: 19 in Scrabble, 22 in Words With Friends. It has 10 letters, 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from POLYGYNIAN by length: 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 8, 10 with 7, 21 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 24 with 2. None has 9 letters.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in POLYGYNIAN: PANGOLIN, 11 points.
The 5-letter words you get when you unscramble POLYGYNIAN are led by GAYLY and GYNNY, 12 points each. ALONG, PLAIN and PIANO are the familiar ones.
GYNY scores highest among the 4-letter words in POLYGYNIAN at 11 points, ahead of GAPY and GYPO on 10. ONLY, LONG and PLAN are the ones most people know.
The 3-letter words made with POLYGYNIAN letters are led by GYP and YAY, 9 points each. ANY, GAY and PAY are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of POLYGYNIAN but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with PO · ending in AN · all 10-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; POLYNYA and POLYNYI (15 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts POLYGYNIAN, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLYGYNIAN itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 237) | 189 | 236 | 167 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 48 of them: POLYGYNIAN, GYNNY, POLYNIA, PYNING, GILPY, GYNY, PYGAL, GALOPIN, NOYING, PIONY, NAPING, NYING and 36 more. Words With Friends* skips 22 of them: PONGY, GYPO, PONGAL, ANYON, GYNO, LAYIN, LINNY, ONLAY, PANINO, LIGNAN, YAG, ANGLO and 10 more. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: GOY.