Unscramble SYLLABICS and you have 172 words, SYLLABICS itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. SYLLABIC is the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. It has 9 letters, 2 vowels and 7 consonants.
S1Y43L12L12A1B34I1C34S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SYLLABICS split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 2 with 7, 15 with 6, 49 with 5, 52 with 4, 38 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Among 49 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SYLLABICS, the top score is 10, reached by 13. CLASS, BASIC and BASIS are the familiar ones.
Of the 52 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SYLLABICS, 8 score 9 points, the group's best. CALL, SAYS and BILL are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SYLLABICS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SY · ending in CS · all 9-letter words
The meaning of SYLLABICS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. SYLLABICS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SYLLABICS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 172) | 154 | 172 | 147 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
18 of the 172 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SCALLY, SYBILS, BLAYS, SYBIL, BLAY, BACS, CLY, SCAILS, BAC, CILLS, LABIS, SAICS and 6 more. 7 of the 172 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BYSSAL, LASSY, CALS, YAS, CAL, LASSI and LIAS.