Unscramble SPECCY to get 23 words. SPECCY itself is a real word: 15 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 9: 6 of them, ESPY, PYES and SCYE included. The 6 letters split into 1 vowel and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SPECCY split into 1 with 6 letters, 9 with 4, 10 with 3 and 3 with 2. None has 5 letters.
Keep every letter of SPECCY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SP · ending in CY · all 6-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with ESPY, PYES, SYCE and YEPS (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts SPECCY, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPECCY itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 23) | 18 | 23 | 17 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 5 of them: SPECCY, SCYE, SYPE, SEY and SYE. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: YEPS.