Unscramble WHIRLIES to get 137 words. WHIRLIES itself is a real word: 14 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
W4H43I1R1L12I1E1S1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from WHIRLIES split into 1 with 8 letters, 9 with 6, 39 with 5, 48 with 4, 27 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Among 39 5-letter words in WHIRLIES, the top score is 11, reached by 6. WHILE, WIRES and SHIRE are the familiar ones.
4 of 48 4-letter words you get when you unscramble WHIRLIES tie at 10 points; none scores more. WISH, HIRE and WIRE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of WHIRLIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with WH · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
The meaning of WHIRLIES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept WHIRLIES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHIRLIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 137) | 106 | 137 | 102 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 31 of them: WERSH, LEISH, RHIES, SEHRI, SIRIH, SWEIR, SWIRE, WEILS, WIELS, WILIS, EISH, REHS and 19 more. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: REISHI, SWILER, SWILE and EW.
With one more tile, the letters of WHIRLIES spell the words below.