Unscramble SPIEL and you have 45 words, SPIEL itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 6 anagrams, each with the same 7 points: LIPES, PILES, PLIES, SLIPE, SPEIL and SPILE. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from SPIEL by length: 7 with 5 letters, 17 with 4, 14 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of SPIEL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with SP · ending in EL · all 5-letter words
The meaning of SPIEL, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SPIEL, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPIEL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 45) | 36 | 45 | 35 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
9 of the 45 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LIPES, LEPS, PELS, PISE, SPIE, LEP, PEL, SEIL and SILE. 1 of the 45 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: LIPE.
With one more tile, the letters of SPIEL spell the words below.