181 words come out when you unscramble TAILLIES, starting with TAILLIES itself: 8 in Scrabble, 10 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from TAILLIES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 7, 13 with 6, 38 with 5, 60 with 4, 45 with 3 and 18 with 2.
The 5-letter words you get when you unscramble TAILLIES come to 38, each scoring 5 points. STILL, LEAST and TELLS are the familiar ones.
All 60 of the 4-letter words from TAILLIES score 4 points. SITE, LIST and LAST are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of TAILLIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with TA · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ILLITES, LAITIES, TAILLES and TALLIES (7 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts TAILLIES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAILLIES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 181) | 153 | 181 | 146 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: TAILLIES, SITELLA, TAILLIE, ALLIS, LEATS, SALET, SALLE, SELLA, STEIL, STELL, TEILS, ELTS and 16 more, 28 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: LITES, TALLS, LIAS, ATS, EST, TES and TE, 7 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of TAILLIES spell the words below.