Unscramble SPITES to get 73 words. SPITES itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 9 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: PISTES and STIPES. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SPITES by length: 3 with 6 letters, 14 with 5, 27 with 4, 19 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of SPITES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with SP · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
SPITES 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 SPITES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPITES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 73) | 62 | 73 | 56 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 11 of them: PIETS, PISES, SPETS, PIET, PISE, SPET, SPIE, SIES, SIST, STIE and ST. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: SEPS, PST, ESTS, EST, TES and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of SPITES plus a single extra one.