100 words come out when you unscramble SPECIFIES, starting with SPECIFIES itself: 16 in Scrabble, 18 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 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 SPECIFIES split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 7 with 6, 21 with 5, 36 with 4, 24 with 3 and 10 with 2. None has 8 letters.
SPECIES is the only one of the 7-letter words in SPECIFIES; it scores 11 points.
FICE, FISC and SPIF are the top 4-letter words from SPECIFIES, 9 points each. PICS, FEES and SEES will look familiar.
Keep every letter of SPECIFIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SP · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
The meaning of SPECIFIES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SPECIFIES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPECIFIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 100) | 88 | 99 | 84 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SPIFS, SPIF, CESSE, FEIS, PISES, PISE, SIF, SPIE, SESE, SIES and EE, 11 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: FES, SEPS, FE and ESSE, 4 in all. Not in Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
Each word below uses all the letters of SPECIFIES and one more.