Unscramble SUBSKILL and you have 65 words, SUBSKILL itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 11: 5 of them, BULKS, BILKS and BISKS included. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
S1U12B34S1K5I1L12L12
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from SUBSKILL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 17 with 5, 23 with 4, 15 with 3 and 6 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of SUBSKILL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SU · ending in LL · all 8-letter words
What SUBSKILL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. SUBSKILL 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUBSKILL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 65) | 57 | 65 | 52 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
8 of the 65 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BUIKS, BUIK, LISKS, LUSKS, LISK, LUSK, SIK and SUI. 5 of the 65 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SUKS, KIS, SUK, KI and SUS.
This word takes every letter of SUBSKILL plus a single extra one.