Unscramble POSTILLIONS and you have 304 words, POSTILLIONS itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are POLLINOSIS, POSTILIONS and POSTILLION, 12 points each. It has 11 letters, 4 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from POSTILLIONS split into 1 with 11 letters, 3 with 10, 4 with 9, 14 with 8, 33 with 7, 53 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 57 with 3 and 19 with 2.
The 10-letter words made with POSTILLIONS letters come to 3, each scoring 12 points.
Of the 14 8-letter words you get when you unscramble POSTILLIONS, 9 score 10 points, the group's best. POSITION and INOSITOL are the ones most people know.
Among 33 7-letter words from POSTILLIONS, the top score is 9, reached by 23. OPTIONS, PISTONS and PISTOLS are the familiar ones.
35 of 53 6-letter words made with POSTILLIONS letters tie at 8 points; none scores more. POINTS, OPTION and POISON will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble POSTILLIONS, 54 score 7 points, the group's best. POSTS, POINT and PILOT are the ones most people know.
49 of 60 4-letter words from POSTILLIONS tie at 6 points; none scores more. POST, TIPS and STOP will look familiar.
Of the 57 3-letter words in POSTILLIONS, 20 score 5 points, the group's best. NOT, ITS and TOP are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of POSTILLIONS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 11-letter words: starting with PO · ending in NS · all 11-letter words
What POSTILLIONS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
POSTILLIONS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POSTILLIONS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 304) | 255 | 304 | 240 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
49 of the 304 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: POSITONS, PTILOSIS, PILOTIS, POISSON, POITINS, POSITON, POSTILS, SINOPIS, STILLIONS, POITIN, POSTIL, POTINS and 37 more. 15 of the 304 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: INSPOS, STILLSON, INSPO, LIPOS, LIPO, POOS, TOPO, LILOS, POO, POS, PST, LILO and 3 more.