How many words end in PH?

This page lists 146 words ending in PH, each with its Scrabble score.

Why are -PH words useful?

Words ending in PH are great for hooking onto existing tiles and pluralising or extending words already on the board.

Words Ending With PH

All 146 words in our dictionary that end in PH, sorted by Scrabble score. Perfect for hooks and crossword clues.

146 words · number = Scrabble score · sorted highest score first

macrophotograph30 microphotograph30 photomicrograph30 plethysmograph30 photolithograph29 sphygmograph29 electromyograph28 rechromatograph28 encephalograph27 karyolymph27 psychograph27 astrophotograph26 chromatograph26 microbarograph26 microradiograph26 anthropomorph25 bathyscaph25 gynandromorph25 xylograph25 cryptograph24 hemolymph24 hypomorph24 kymograph24 photoautotroph24 pseudepigraph24 rechoreograph24 shadowgraph24 zoomorph24 cinematograph23 hygrograph23 rephotograph23 choreograph22 chronograph22 hieroglyph22 spectrograph22 subparagraph22 thermograph22 autoradiograph21 auxotroph21 hectograph21 magnetograph21 paranymph21 perilymph21 petroglyph21 phonograph21 photograph21 pneumograph21 polymorph21 pseudomorph21 radioautograph21 radiotelegraph21 cardiograph20 endolymph20 homograph20 micrograph20 mimeograph20 oscillograph20 pictograph20 polygraph20 typograph20 coronagraph19 coronograph19 enantiomorph19 heliograph19 heterotroph19 lithograph19 myograph19 seismograph19 allelomorph18 anemograph18 ectomorph18 harrumph18 holograph18 joseph18 mesomorph18 pantograph18 qoph18 anaglyph17 barograph17 endomorph17 harumph17 khaph17 lagomorph17 monograph17 nomograph17 paragraph17 prototroph17 radiograph17 stereograph17 triglyph17 allomorph16 bimorph16 epigraph16 ergograph16 ideograph16 logograph16 logogriph16 subgraph16 allograph15 autograph15 cenotaph15 diagraph15 dimorph15 galumph15 humph15 isomorph15 kaliph15 lymph15 megilph15 neomorph15 nymph15 odograph15 oleograph15 serigraph15 telegraph15 trimorph15 acaleph14 autotroph14 bumph14 digraph14 epitaph14 glyph14 isograph14 trigraph14 triumph14 caliph13 ceriph13 kaph13 koph13 paraph13 scarph13 sylph13 gonoph12 morph12 oomph12 syph12 caph11 graph11 seraph11 teraph11 aleph10 ralph10 staph10 ouph9 soph9 toph9

Hooking with -PH words

Endings like -PH let you tack a word onto a tile already on the board, often turning a small play into a big one. Look for the high-value entries above to maximise points.

This list by the numbers

Inside this list: 146 words spanning 4–15 letters. The biggest cluster sits at 9 letters (32 words), 13 entries are Wordle-sized at five letters, and 9 run to seven — bingo length if you can empty the rack. For points, the ceiling is MACROPHOTOGRAPH, worth 30.

The five biggest scorers on the page: MACROPHOTOGRAPH (30), MICROPHOTOGRAPH (30), PHOTOMICROGRAPH (30), PLETHYSMOGRAPH (30), PHOTOLITHOGRAPH (29). ASTROPHOTOGRAPH (15 letters) stretches furthest, while the list-wide average score sits near 19 points. The most useful tiles to hold for this list are H, P and R, which appear in 146, 146 and 115 of the words respectively.

Start with these three

SERAPH is easy to keep in memory: 6 letters, 11 points, and no awkward tiles to hunt for.
TERAPH earns 11 points from just 6 tiles — and it is a word few opponents will bother to challenge.
Playing ALEPH across a double-word square turns its base 10 points into 20 — solid value for 5 tiles.

Five more everyday options from the same list: RALPH (10), STAPH (10), GONOPH (12), CALIPH (13), CERIPH (13).

-PH as a board weapon

When the board tightens up late in a Scrabble game, -PH words keep you scoring: they attach to existing letters instead of needing seven clean tiles. Crossword solvers use the same trick in reverse — if the grid gives you the last letters, this list is the candidate pool. Check the length filter in the Word Finder to match your open squares exactly.

More endings

Narrow it down

Pair an ending with a length or starting letter in the Word Finder.