Unscramble BIFIDUM and you have 34 words, BIFIDUM itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. BIFIDUM as a single 7-tile play makes 65 in Scrabble, 15 plus the 50 bonus, and 53 in Words With Friends (18 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BIFIDUM by length: 1 with 7 letters, 1 with 5, 7 with 4, 17 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 6 letters.
There is a single one of the 5-letter words made with BIFIDUM letters: BIFID, 11 points.
Keep every letter of BIFIDUM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with BI · ending in UM · all 7-letter words
BIFIDUM first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BIFIDUM is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIFIDUM itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 34) | 29 | 33 | 25 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
4 of the 34 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BIFIDUM, BIDI, DIF and DUM. 4 of the 34 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FUM, BUDI, MUID and DI. 1 of the 34 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
With one more tile, the letters of BIFIDUM spell the words below.