Unscramble SPRIGHTS to get 141 words. SPRIGHTS itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. SPIGHTS and SPRIGHT are the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. The 8 letters split into 1 vowel and 7 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SPRIGHTS split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 15 with 6, 36 with 5, 49 with 4, 29 with 3 and 9 with 2.
PIGHT tops the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SPRIGHTS at 11 points; next come PITHS and SHIPS on 10. RIGHT, SHIRT and STRIP will look familiar.
Of the 49 4-letter words from SPRIGHTS, 6 score 9 points, the group's best. TIPS, SHIP and TRIP are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SPRIGHTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SP · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
SPRIGHTS 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 SPRIGHTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPRIGHTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 141) | 117 | 141 | 112 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SPIGHTS, PIGHTS, SPIGHT, PIGHT, HIPT, THIGS, SHIRS, THIG, RISPS, SHIR, STRIGS, ISH and 12 more, 24 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: PST, SIGS, GIS, SIG and GI, 5 in all.