Unscramble INCUMBENT and you have 151 words, INCUMBENT itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. CUMBENT is the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
I1N12C34U12M34B34E1N12T1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from INCUMBENT by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 14 with 6, 22 with 5, 51 with 4, 44 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Among 51 4-letter words from INCUMBENT, the top score is 8, reached by 6. TIME, ITEM and UNIT are the familiar ones.
These 2 words have the length of INCUMBENT, with one letter different:
More 9-letter words: starting with IN · ending in NT · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by BITUMEN (11 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept INCUMBENT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| INCUMBENT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 151) | 124 | 150 | 114 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CUMBENT, NINCUM, BUNCE, METIC, BUNNET, INBENT, MUNITE, NIMB, CUNEI, INCUT, MEINT, BEIN and 14 more, 26 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BINMEN, INCENT, CENTU, CUNIT, MIC, TEC, TUM, TEIN, UNI, UTE and TE, 11 in all. Not in Scrabble UK: BINT. Not in Scrabble US: CUNT.
Each word below uses all the letters of INCUMBENT and one more.