Unscramble SUBSISTING and you have 191 words, SUBSISTING itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The 10 letters split into 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from SUBSISTING by length: 1 with 10 letters, 5 with 8, 12 with 7, 14 with 6, 37 with 5, 60 with 4, 48 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 9 letters.
The 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SUBSISTING are led by BINGS, BUNGS and GIBUS, 8 points each. USING, UNITS and SIGNS are the familiar ones.
6 of 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SUBSISTING tie at 7 points; none scores more. SIGN, BITS and SUIT will look familiar.
Among 48 3-letter words from SUBSISTING, the top score is 6, reached by 4. BUT, ITS and BIG are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SUBSISTING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with SU · ending in NG · all 10-letter words
What SUBSISTING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SUBSISTING works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUBSISTING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 191) | 152 | 189 | 142 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
39 of the 191 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BUISTING, BUSTINGS, BITINGS, BINGS, BUISTS, BUSTIS, GIBUS, SISTING, SITINGS, BUIST, BUSTI, GIUSTS and 27 more. 10 of the 191 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BING, SUSING, NUGS, SIGS, GIS, NUG, SIG, GI, SUS and UNI. 2 of the 191 answers are missing from Scrabble UK: BINTS and BINT.