Unscramble SILICIDES to get 115 words. SILICIDES itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. SILICIDE is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from SILICIDES by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 7 with 6, 30 with 5, 42 with 4, 25 with 3 and 9 with 2. None has 7 letters.
SILICIDE is the only one of the 8-letter words made with SILICIDES letters; it scores 11 points.
Among 30 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SILICIDES, the top score is 8, reached by 6. SLIDE, SIDES and DISCS are the familiar ones.
Of the 42 4-letter words from SILICIDES, 6 score 7 points, the group's best. LESS, SIDE and DISC are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SILICIDES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SI · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
What SILICIDES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SILICIDES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILICIDES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 115) | 91 | 115 | 86 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CIDES, CLIED, ILICES, CIDE, CIDS, CIELS, CLIES, CID, CIEL, DIELS, EILDS, SIELD and 12 more, 24 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CEILIS, CEILI, DESIS, DESI and EDS, 5 in all.