Unscramble PUNCHILY and you have 79 words, PUNCHILY itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
PUNCHYLI unscrambles to PUNCHILY: these are all the words its letters make.
P34U12N12C34H43I1L12Y43
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from PUNCHILY split into 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 6, 11 with 5, 19 with 4, 31 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of PUNCHILY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PU · ending in LY · all 8-letter words
What PUNCHILY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PUNCHILY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUNCHILY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 79) | 66 | 79 | 62 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HYLIC, PILCH, UNLICH, LINCH, PULY, CLY, PUH, PUY, CH, HUI, NY, PLU and 1 more, 13 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: HIPLY, LYCH, LUN and UNI, 4 in all.