122 words come out when you unscramble NUBILOUS, starting with NUBILOUS itself: 10 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. Among the shorter answers, 9 reach 7 points, BONUS, BISON and BOILS among them. The 8 letters split into 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from NUBILOUS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 16 with 5, 41 with 4, 44 with 3 and 18 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Of the 41 4-letter words from NUBILOUS, 19 score 6 points, the group's best. SOUL, SOIL and LION are the ones most people know.
Among 44 3-letter words you get when you unscramble NUBILOUS, the top score is 5, reached by 18. SUN, OIL and SON are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of NUBILOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
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The meaning of NUBILOUS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. NUBILOUS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUBILOUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 122) | 95 | 122 | 89 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 27 of them: BLINS, BOUNS, LOBUS, BOIS, BOUN, LOBI, UNSOUL, BOI, BON, LOUNS, NOULS, OBS and 15 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: UNSUB, LUNS, UNIS, LUN, UNI and OI.
This word takes every letter of NUBILOUS plus a single extra one.