161 words come out when you unscramble BOTULINUM, starting with BOTULINUM itself: 13 in Scrabble, 19 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
B34O1T1U12L12I1N12U12M34
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from BOTULINUM by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 8 with 6, 20 with 5, 54 with 4, 53 with 3 and 22 with 2. None has 8 letters.
54 4-letter words from BOTULINUM; 6 of them share the top score of 8. UNIT, MINT and LION are everyday picks.
BUM, MIB and MOB share the top score of 7 among the 3-letter words from BOTULINUM. NOT, BUT and OUT are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of BOTULINUM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with BO · ending in UM · all 9-letter words
What BOTULINUM means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BOTULINUM, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOTULINUM itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 161) | 123 | 159 | 117 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
37 of the 161 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: UNTOMB, LUMBI, TIMBO, NIMB, OMBU, BITOU, OUBIT, TIMON, ULMIN, BITO, BLIT, BOUN and 25 more. 6 of the 161 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BOULT, MOI, TUM, LUN, UNI and OI. 1 of the 161 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: MULTI. 1 of the 161 answers is missing from Scrabble UK: BINT.
This word takes every letter of BOTULINUM plus a single extra one.