Unscramble SPONDEES to get 187 words. SPONDEES itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 10: 4 of them, DEPONES, DEPOSES and SPEEDOS included. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from SPONDEES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 18 with 6, 47 with 5, 60 with 4, 41 with 3 and 16 with 2.
47 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SPONDEES; 12 of them share the top score of 8. NEEDS, SPEED and SENSE are everyday picks.
Of the 60 4-letter words from SPONDEES, 12 score 7 points, the group's best. NEED, DOES and SEND are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SPONDEES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SP · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
SPONDEES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SPONDEES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPONDEES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 187) | 153 | 187 | 143 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: POSSED, PENED, SPODS, DOPS, ENDOSS, SNOEP, SPEOS, SPOD, DEENS, DESSE, DOP, ENOSES and 22 more, 34 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DEPS, DEP, SEPS, ESNES, POS, SENES, EDS, ESNE, ESSE and PO, 10 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of SPONDEES spell the words below.