78 words come out when you unscramble EXCURSUS, starting with EXCURSUS itself: 17 in Scrabble, 20 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is CRUXES, 15 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for cruxsues, curessux, userscux, cusserux, cursesux or uxcurses? They use the same letters as EXCURSUS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from EXCURSUS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 9 with 6, 17 with 5, 25 with 4, 19 with 3 and 7 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of EXCURSUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with EX · ending in US · all 8-letter words
EXCURSUS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept EXCURSUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXCURSUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 78) | 59 | 78 | 57 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CURSUS, RUSCUS, CRUES, SCURS, SCUSE, CRUE, RUCS, SCUR, USURES, RESUS, RUC, RUSSE and 7 more, 19 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CRU and SUS, 2 in all.