177 words come out when you unscramble SHIGELLA, starting with SHIGELLA itself: 12 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SHIGELLA split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 10 with 6, 36 with 5, 60 with 4, 49 with 3 and 19 with 2.
LAIGH tops the 5-letter words from SHIGELLA at 9 points; next come HAILS and HALES on 8. LEGAL, HILLS and SHELL will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SHIGELLA, the top score is 8, reached by 5. SALE, SELL and HILL are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SHIGELLA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SH · ending in LA · all 8-letter words
The meaning of SHIGELLA, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SHIGELLA, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHIGELLA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 177) | 154 | 177 | 143 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
23 of the 177 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SEALGH, SHALLI, GALLISE, HALSE, LEISH, EISH, EHS, GEALS, GILAS, GLEIS, ISH, ALLIS and 11 more. 11 of the 177 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: AHIS, LAHS, AHI, AHS, LAH, SIGLA, AGS, GIS, LIAS, SIG and GI.
Each word below uses all the letters of SHIGELLA and one more.