Unscramble SILIQUOUS and you have 51 words, SILIQUOUS itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from SILIQUOUS split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 6, 7 with 5, 14 with 4, 17 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 8 or 7 letters.
Just 1 of the 6-letter words made with SILIQUOUS letters: ULOSIS, for 6 points.
Keep every letter of SILIQUOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SI · ending in US · all 9-letter words
SILIQUOUS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SILIQUOUS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SILIQUOUS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 51) | 38 | 51 | 33 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
13 of the 51 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ULOSIS, ISOS, LOUS, SUSU, IOS, ISO, LOS, LOU, OIS, OUS, SUI, IO and 1 more. 5 of the 51 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SILIQUOUS, QIS, QI, SUS and OI.