Unscramble ILLINIUMS to get 77 words. ILLINIUMS itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
I1L12L12I1N12I1U12M34S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ILLINIUMS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 5 with 6, 13 with 5, 24 with 4, 23 with 3 and 10 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Just 1 of the 8-letter words in ILLINIUMS: ILLINIUM, for 10 points.
Keep every letter of ILLINIUMS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with IL · ending in MS · all 9-letter words
ILLINIUMS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ILLINIUMS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ILLINIUMS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 77) | 68 | 77 | 62 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 9 of them: ULMINS, MUILS, SIMUL, ULMIN, MUIL, SIMI, SUNI, NIS and SUI. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: SUMI, UMS, LUNS, UNIS, LUN and UNI.
These 2 words take every letter of ILLINIUMS plus a single extra one.