Unscramble CERCUS and you have 45 words, CERCUS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. CERCUS has 1 anagram here, CRUCES, scoring 10 like CERCUS itself. Of the shorter words, CUSEC leads with 9 points. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from CERCUS by length: 2 with 6 letters, 7 with 5, 16 with 4, 15 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of CERCUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with CE · ending in US · all 6-letter words
What CERCUS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CERCUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CERCUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 45) | 36 | 45 | 35 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
9 of the 45 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRUES, CRUE, RUCS, SCUR, RUC, URES, SUR, URE and UR. 1 of the 45 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: CRU.
With one more tile, the letters of CERCUS spell the words below.