Unscramble CELLULOUS and you have 96 words, CELLULOUS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from CELLULOUS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 6 with 6, 21 with 5, 32 with 4, 25 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 21 5-letter words you get when you unscramble CELLULOUS, 14 score 7 points, the group's best. CLOSE, CELLS and LOCUS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of CELLULOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with CE · ending in US · all 9-letter words
What CELLULOUS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
CELLULOUS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CELLULOUS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 96) | 78 | 96 | 72 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 18 of them: SCULLE, CLOUS, COLLS, LEUCO, SOUCE, CLOU, COLL, COSE, SCUL, SECO, EUSOL, LOUS and 6 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: CELLULOUS, ECOS, LOCS, ECO, LOC and SOC.