Unscramble LIBELOUS and you have 148 words, LIBELOUS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 9: 4 of them, SOLUBLE, BULLIES and BOULLES included. 8 letters: 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
Looking for bluesoil, bullsoie, bellious, soulbile, bullieso or soulible? They use the same letters as LIBELOUS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from LIBELOUS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 9 with 6, 30 with 5, 47 with 4, 40 with 3 and 17 with 2.
30 5-letter words you get when you unscramble LIBELOUS; 18 of them share the top score of 7. BLUES, BILLS and BELLS are everyday picks.
Of the 47 4-letter words from LIBELOUS, 22 score 6 points, the group's best. SELL, BLUE and BILL are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of LIBELOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with LI · ending in US · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with BOULLES, BULLIES, LOBULES and SOLUBLE (9 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LIBELOUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LIBELOUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 148) | 122 | 148 | 116 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 26 of them: LOBULI, BOSIE, BULSE, LOBUS, BOIS, LOBI, SLEB, BOI, EUSOL, OBS, EUOI, LOUS and 14 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: OLLIES, BES, LILOS, OLLIE, LILO and OI.
These 2 words take every letter of LIBELOUS plus a single extra one.