81 words come out when you unscramble LUCENTLY, starting with LUCENTLY itself: 13 in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends. CUTELY is the best of the shorter words, at 11 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
L12U12C34E1N12T1L12Y43
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from LUCENTLY by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 14 with 5, 27 with 4, 25 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of LUCENTLY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with LU · ending in LY · all 8-letter words
What LUCENTLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. LUCENTLY 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUCENTLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 81) | 64 | 81 | 59 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 16 of them: CETYL, CLUEY, CULTY, CYTE, CLY, LYNE, LYTE, TUNY, YELT, NYE, UEY, UNCE and 4 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: CELLY, CENTU, TEC, LUN, UTE and TE. Scrabble US skips 1 of them: CUNT.