Unscramble SPECIALS to get 243 words. SPECIALS itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. SPECIALS has 1 anagram here, SLIPCASE, scoring 12 like SPECIALS itself. The best shorter words score 11: 4 of them, SPECIAL, SPLICES and CAPLESS included. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for placesis or splicesa? They use the same letters as SPECIALS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from SPECIALS split into 2 with 8 letters, 10 with 7, 45 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 52 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Of the 45 6-letter words from SPECIALS, 17 score 10 points, the group's best. PLACES, SPACES and SCALES are the ones most people know.
Among 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SPECIALS, the top score is 9, reached by 22. PLACE, CLASS and SPACE are the familiar ones.
15 of 60 4-letter words made with SPECIALS letters tie at 8 points; none scores more. CASE, PICS and PASS will look familiar.
Of the 52 3-letter words you get when you unscramble SPECIALS, 5 score 7 points, the group's best. ASS, SEA and ICE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SPECIALS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SP · ending in LS · all 8-letter words
SPECIALS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SPECIALS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPECIALS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 243) | 203 | 243 | 194 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CAPLES, CLIPES, CALPS, CAPLE, CLIPE, LAIPSES, SALICES, SCAPI, CALP, CAPI, CASSIE, LAIPSE and 28 more, 40 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: PLICAS, LIPAS, PALIS, CALS, LIASES, LIPA, LIPE, PALI and CAL, 9 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of SPECIALS spell the words below.