133 words come out when you unscramble SILICOSES, starting with SILICOSES itself: 11 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. OSSICLES and SCISSILE are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SILICOSES split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 6 with 7, 14 with 6, 28 with 5, 43 with 4, 28 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Of the 43 4-letter words from SILICOSES, 19 score 6 points, the group's best. LESS, LOSS and LOSE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SILICOSES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SI · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by OSSICLES and SCISSILE (10 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SILICOSES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILICOSES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 133) | 106 | 133 | 92 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: COSSIES, SCISSEL, SCISSIL, COSSES, COSSIE, ILICES, CIELS, CLIES, CIEL, COSE, LISSES, SECO and 15 more, 27 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LOESSIC, CEILIS, LOCIES, CEILI, LOCIE, LOCIS, SOCES, ECOS, LOCS, SILOES, ECO, LOC and 2 more, 14 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of SILICOSES spell the words below.