Unscramble AURICULA and you have 66 words, AURICULA itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 5 vowels and 3 consonants.
A1U12R1I1C34U12L12A1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from AURICULA split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 6, 12 with 5, 22 with 4, 20 with 3 and 7 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of AURICULA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with AU · ending in LA · all 8-letter words
What AURICULA means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept AURICULA, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AURICULA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 66) | 53 | 66 | 47 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
13 of the 66 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: LAURIC, CURLI, CIRL, RACA, CAA, RUC, URALI, AULA, AIA, ALU, AUA, LUR and 1 more. 6 of the 66 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CAURI, ACAI, CRIA, CAL, CRU and RAI.
These 3 words take every letter of AURICULA plus a single extra one.