Unscramble NOCUOUSLY and you have 129 words, NOCUOUSLY itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
N12O1C34U12O1U12S1L12Y43
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from NOCUOUSLY by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 7, 9 with 6, 24 with 5, 41 with 4, 38 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 24 5-letter words you get when you unscramble NOCUOUSLY, 4 score 10 points, the group's best. COLON, LOCUS and LOUSY are the ones most people know.
Among 41 4-letter words from NOCUOUSLY, the top score is 9, reached by 6. ONLY, SOON and COOL are the familiar ones.
These 2 words have the length of NOCUOUSLY, with one letter different:
More 9-letter words: starting with NO · ending in LY · all 9-letter words
NOCUOUSLY first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NOCUOUSLY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOCUOUSLY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 129) | 96 | 128 | 87 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
33 of the 129 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NOYOUS, CLY, CLOUS, LOYS, NOYS, ONCUS, OOSY, CLOU, LOY, NOY, NYS, ONY and 21 more. 9 of the 129 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SYCON, YOUS, LOCS, LOC, SOC, LUNS, ONOS, LUN and ONO. 1 of the 129 answers is missing from Scrabble UK: COOLY.