Unscramble ILLUMES to get 95 words. ILLUMES itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 13 in Words With Friends. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. ILLUMES as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 48 in Words With Friends (13 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from ILLUMES split into 1 with 7 letters, 4 with 6, 18 with 5, 33 with 4, 28 with 3 and 11 with 2.
20 of 33 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ILLUMES tie at 6 points; none scores more. SELL, MILE and SEMI will look familiar.
Trade one tile of ILLUMES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 7-letter words: starting with IL · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
The meaning of ILLUMES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. ILLUMES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ILLUMES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 95) | 82 | 95 | 77 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
13 of the 95 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MUILS, MULSE, SIMUL, MEUS, MUIL, UMES, MEU, UME, SEIL, SILE, ULES, SUI and 1 more. 5 of the 95 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MULIES, MULIE, SUMI, MES and UMS.
Each word below uses all the letters of ILLUMES and one more.