127 words come out when you unscramble SKILLIONS, starting with SKILLIONS itself: 13 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, OILSKINS and SKILLION lead with 12 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SKILLIONS split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 2 with 7, 7 with 6, 28 with 5, 44 with 4, 29 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 44 4-letter words from SKILLIONS, 22 score 8 points, the group's best. LINK, LOSS and SKIN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SKILLIONS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SK · ending in NS · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by OILSKINS (12 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: SKILLIONS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SKILLIONS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 127) | 102 | 127 | 91 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
25 of the 127 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SKILLIONS, SKILLION, INKOSIS, INKOSI, LIKINS, NKOSIS, LIKIN, LISKS, NKOSI, SKIOS, KONS, LISK and 13 more. 11 of the 127 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SKOLS, KOIS, OIKS, SKOL, KIS, OIK, KI, OK, LILOS, LILO and OI.
Each word below uses all the letters of SKILLIONS and one more.