Unscramble CUPULAE to get 68 words. CUPULAE itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, CULPAE, CUPULA and CUPULE lead with 10 points. 7 letters: 4 vowels and 3 consonants. CUPULAE as a single 7-tile play makes 61 in Scrabble, 11 plus the 50 bonus, and 51 in Words With Friends (16 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from CUPULAE split into 1 with 7 letters, 3 with 6, 6 with 5, 22 with 4, 28 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of CUPULAE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with CU · ending in AE · all 7-letter words
What CUPULAE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CUPULAE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CUPULAE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 68) | 53 | 68 | 51 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
15 of the 68 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CAPLE, CAPUL, CALP, CAUP, PAUL, PELA, PLUE, PULU, LEP, PEL, PLU, ALU and 3 more. 2 of the 68 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PELAU and CAL.
With one more tile, the letters of CUPULAE spell the words below.