Unscramble SPIKIEST to get 141 words. SPIKIEST itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
S1P34I1K5I1E1S1T1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SPIKIEST by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 6 with 6, 36 with 5, 57 with 4, 29 with 3 and 11 with 2.
PISKIES is the only one of the 7-letter words made with SPIKIEST letters; it scores 13 points.
9 of 36 5-letter words from SPIKIEST tie at 11 points; none scores more. SITES, STEPS and SPIES will look familiar.
Of the 57 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SPIKIEST, 11 score 10 points, the group's best. SITE, TIPS and STEP are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SPIKIEST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SP · ending in ST · all 8-letter words
What SPIKIEST means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. SPIKIEST is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPIKIEST itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 141) | 108 | 139 | 102 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
31 of the 141 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PISKIES, KIPES, SPEKS, KIPE, SPEK, KESTS, SEKTS, SKETS, EIKS, KEST, KETS, SEIK and 19 more. 8 of the 141 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: KIS, KI, SEPS, PST, ESTS, EST, TES and TE. 2 of the 141 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Scrabble UK: SPIKS and SPIK.
These 3 words take every letter of SPIKIEST plus a single extra one.