Unscramble NIMBUSES to get 161 words. NIMBUSES itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 10: 5 of them, NIMBUS, BUSMEN and IMBUES included. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from NIMBUSES split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 8 with 6, 35 with 5, 56 with 4, 44 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words made with NIMBUSES letters: MINUSES, for 9 points.
5 of 35 5-letter words from NIMBUSES tie at 9 points; none scores more. ISSUE, MENUS and MINUS will look familiar.
56 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NIMBUSES; 4 of them share the top score of 8. MENU, USES and MISS are everyday picks.
Trade one tile of NIMBUSES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with NI · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What NIMBUSES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
NIMBUSES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NIMBUSES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 161) | 130 | 161 | 122 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 31 of them: SUBMEN, EMBUS, NIMBS, NIMB, BEINS, BENIS, MEINS, MUSSE, SNEBS, BEIN, BENI, BIEN and 19 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: SUMIS, SUMI, BES, MES, UMS, UNIS, SUS and UNI.
With one more tile, the letters of NIMBUSES spell the words below.