Hidden inside phyllis sit hiply and sylph, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 51 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hiply and sylph tie for the highest Scrabble score from phyllis at 13 points. The top 10 of 51 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in phyllis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hills, pills, silly, and spill. For points, the strongest plays are hiply and sylph — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in phyllis produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hill, hips and lips. For points, the strongest plays are hyps and syph — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling phyllis turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hip, his and ill. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in phyllis plus one additional letter.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hiply and sylph, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from phyllis earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in phyllis produce 51 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.