Unscramble NOROVIRUS to get 107 words. NOROVIRUS itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from NOROVIRUS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 7, 3 with 6, 17 with 5, 31 with 4, 38 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in NOROVIRUS: UNVISOR, for 10 points.
Keep every letter of NOROVIRUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with NO · ending in US · all 9-letter words
Here is what the 7 strongest answers mean; VINOUS (9 points) takes the top spot.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
NOROVIRUS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOROVIRUS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 107) | 71 | 105 | 60 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
35 of the 107 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: UNVISOR, VIROUS, VISON, VROUS, RIVO, VORS, VROU, SOV, VOR, NURRS, ROINS, ROONS and 23 more. 10 of the 107 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NOROVIRUS, VINS, VIN, ONOS, ROOS, UNIS, ONO, ROO, UNI and OI. 1 of the 107 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: VON. 1 of the 107 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: INROS.
This word takes every letter of NOROVIRUS plus a single extra one.