263 words come out when you unscramble POWELLISES, starting with POWELLISES itself: 15 in Scrabble, 18 in Words With Friends. POWELLISE and SLOPEWISE are the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. It has 10 letters, 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from POWELLISES split into 1 with 10 letters, 2 with 9, 5 with 8, 14 with 7, 47 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 54 with 3 and 20 with 2.
47 6-letter words you get when you unscramble POWELLISES; 5 of them share the top score of 11. PILLOW, SLEEPS and SPELLS are everyday picks.
12 of 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble POWELLISES tie at 10 points; none scores more. WELLS, PILLS and WILLS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from POWELLISES, 13 score 9 points, the group's best. WILL, WELL and SLOW are the ones most people know.
Among the 3-letter words in POWELLISES, PEW, POW and WOP tie for first at 8 points. SEE, LOW and OIL are everyday picks.
These 5 words have the length of POWELLISES, with one letter different:
More 10-letter words: starting with PO · ending in ES · all 10-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; PILLOWS and SWIPLES (12 points each) share the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
POWELLISES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWELLISES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 263) | 197 | 263 | 182 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 64 of them: POWELLISES, POWELLISE, SLOPEWISE, PILOWS, ELLOPSES, LOWPS, PILOW, SOWPS, WOLLIES, ELOPSES, LOWP, LOWSES and 52 more. Words With Friends* skips 17 of them: SWILES, WELP, OWIES, POLIES, SWILE, SWOLE, LIPOS, OWIE, EEW, LIPE, LIPO, OLLIES and 5 more. Scrabble US skips 2 of them: WOPS and WOP.