Unscramble BIUNIQUE to get 28 words. BIUNIQUE itself is a real word: 19 points on a Scrabble board, 23 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 5 vowels and 3 consonants.
B34I1U12N12I1Q10U12E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from BIUNIQUE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 1 with 5, 6 with 4, 9 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
There is a single one of the 5-letter words in BIUNIQUE: QUINE, 14 points.
Keep every letter of BIUNIQUE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BI · ending in UE · all 8-letter words
BIUNIQUE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BIUNIQUE, and the Words With Friends list has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIUNIQUE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 28) | 21 | 28 | 20 |
* Lists: NWL2023, Collins CSW24, *Words With Friends' own (changing) list.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: QUINIE, QUINE, QIN, BEIN, BENI, BIEN and NIE, 7 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: UNI.