Unscramble POLYPHON to get 72 words. POLYPHON itself is a real word: 18 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
P34O1L12Y43P34H43O1N12
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from POLYPHON by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 11 with 5, 23 with 4, 24 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 7 letters.
HYPO scores highest among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble POLYPHON at 12 points, ahead of HOLY on 10 and HOLP on 9. ONLY, POOL and LOOP are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of POLYPHON but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PO · ending in ON · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with HOPPY (15 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: POLYPHON is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POLYPHON itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 72) | 59 | 72 | 51 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 13 of them: POLYPHON, POLONY, YOOP, HOLON, HOON, LOY, NOOP, NOY, ONY, NY, OOP, OON and 1 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: POOPY, OPPO, PHO, HOLO, HOO, POO, PO and ONO.
Each word below uses all the letters of POLYPHON and one more.