Unscramble SULPHONYL and you have 186 words, SULPHONYL itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, PHYLLOS and PLUSHLY lead with 15 points. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from SULPHONYL by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 10 with 6, 37 with 5, 60 with 4, 56 with 3 and 20 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
Of the 37 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SULPHONYL, 5 score 13 points, the group's best. POLLS, HOLLY and PLUSH are the ones most people know.
Among the 4-letter words from SULPHONYL, HYPO, HYPS and SYPH tie for first at 12 points. ONLY, SHOP and PLUS are everyday picks.
HYP scores highest among the 3-letter words in SULPHONYL at 11 points, ahead of HOY and SHY on 9. SUN, SON and UPS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SULPHONYL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SU · ending in YL · all 9-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; PHYLLOS and PLUSHLY (15 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SULPHONYL, but the Words With Friends list does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SULPHONYL itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 186) | 145 | 186 | 135 |
* Lists: NWL2023, Collins CSW24, Words With Friends' own (changing) list.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 41 of them: HULLY, LUSHY, POLLY, PULLY, SLOPY, SULPH, HUPS, POHS, PULY, PUYS, UPSY, LYSOL and 29 more. Words With Friends* skips 10 of them: SULPHONYL, PHOS, PHO, HOS, SHO, SOH, POS, LUNS, PO and LUN.
With one more tile, the letters of SULPHONYL spell the words below.