19 words come out when you unscramble IMAUM, starting with IMAUM itself: 9 in Scrabble, 12 in Words With Friends. IMAUM has 1 anagram here, UMAMI, scoring 9 like IMAUM itself. The strongest shorter words are IMAM, MAIM and UMMA, 8 points each. The 5 letters split into 3 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from IMAUM by length: 2 with 5 letters, 3 with 4, 7 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of IMAUM but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with IM · ending in UM · all 5-letter words
The meaning of IMAUM, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept IMAUM, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| IMAUM itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 19) | 19 | 19 | 16 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: UMAMI, UMMA and MAM.
These 3 words take every letter of IMAUM plus a single extra one.