Unscramble NUBECULAE and you have 133 words, NUBECULAE itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from NUBECULAE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 1 with 7, 15 with 6, 16 with 5, 44 with 4, 40 with 3 and 15 with 2.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words made with NUBECULAE letters: NUBECULA, 12 points.
NEBULAE is the only one of the 7-letter words in NUBECULAE; it scores 9 points.
BANC, CLUB and CUBE share the top score of 8 among the 4-letter words in NUBECULAE. BEEN, BLUE and ABLE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of NUBECULAE for another and you can spell these 3 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with NU · ending in AE · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CABLE, CELEB and NEBULAE (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
NUBECULAE is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUBECULAE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 133) | 102 | 133 | 95 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
31 of the 133 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NUBECULAE, NUBECULA, BELACE, CUBANE, ABCEE, BUNCE, ELANCE, NUCULE, ABUNE, ALBEE, ANCLE, BAC and 19 more. 7 of the 133 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BANC, UNBALE, BEAL, BUNA, BAE, CAL and LUN.
With one more tile, the letters of NUBECULAE spell the words below.