281 words come out when you unscramble POWDERLIKE, starting with POWDERLIKE itself: 20 in Scrabble, 22 in Words With Friends. PILEWORK is the best of the shorter words, at 17 points. The 10 letters split into 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from POWDERLIKE by length: 1 with 10 letters, 4 with 8, 14 with 7, 55 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 27 with 2. None has 9 letters.
Among the 6-letter words from POWDERLIKE, KEWPIE leads with 15 points, then WELKED and WORKED on 14. PERIOD, POWDER and RELIED are the familiar ones.
EWKED tops the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble POWDERLIKE at 13 points; next come KREWE and PIKED on 12. WORLD, POWER and POKER will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble POWDERLIKE, 6 score 11 points, the group's best. LIKE, WORK and WEEK are the ones most people know.
The 3-letter words from POWDERLIKE are led by EWK, KOW and WOK, 10 points each. LOW, PRO and WED are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of POWDERLIKE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with PO · ending in KE · all 10-letter words
What POWDERLIKE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept POWDERLIKE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWDERLIKE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 281) | 201 | 281 | 180 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
79 of the 281 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PILEWORK, DROPLIKE, WELKED, EWKED, KEWLER, POLKED, PROKED, KELPER, LOWPED, POWRED, WELKE, WROKE and 67 more. 22 of the 281 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: KEWPIE, REPLOWED, PORKED, KREWE, WOKER, LEWK, REPLOW, DROKE, WORDIE, LIPOED, OWLIER, WELP and 10 more. 1 of the 281 answers is missing from Scrabble US: WOP.