17 words come out when you unscramble FUCOUS, starting with FUCOUS itself: 11 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. The 6 letters split into 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from FUCOUS by length: 1 with 6 letters, 2 with 5, 3 with 4, 6 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of FUCOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with FU · ending in US · all 6-letter words
What FUCOUS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept FUCOUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUCOUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 17) | 11 | 17 | 10 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
6 of the 17 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: FUSC, FOUS, UFOS, UFO, OUS and OU. 1 of the 17 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: SOC.
With one more tile, the letters of FUCOUS spell the words below.