Unscramble LUCRE to get 27 words. LUCRE itself is a real word: 7 points on a Scrabble board, 10 in Words With Friends. LUCRE has 2 anagrams here, CRUEL and ULCER, scoring 7 like LUCRE itself. The best shorter words score 6: 6 of them, CURE, CLUE and CURL included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
L12U12C34R1E1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from LUCRE by length: 3 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 12 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of LUCRE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with LU · ending in RE · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to LUCRE:
The meaning of LUCRE, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. LUCRE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LUCRE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 27) | 21 | 27 | 20 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
6 of the 27 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRUE, RUC, LUR, ULE, URE and UR. 1 of the 27 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: CRU.
Each word below uses all the letters of LUCRE and one more.