Unscramble NUMERARY and you have 161 words, NUMERARY itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. UNMARRY and UNMERRY are the best of the shorter words, at 12 points. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
N12U12M34E1R1A1R1Y43
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from NUMERARY split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 7 with 6, 28 with 5, 44 with 4, 54 with 3 and 24 with 2.
Of the 28 5-letter words from NUMERARY, 7 score 10 points, the group's best. MERRY, MARRY and RERUN are the ones most people know.
Among 44 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NUMERARY, the top score is 9, reached by 4. NAME, YEAR and MANY are the familiar ones.
54 3-letter words in NUMERARY; 4 of them share the top score of 8. ARE, MAY and ANY are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of NUMERARY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NU · ending in RY · all 8-letter words
What NUMERARY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NUMERARY, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NUMERARY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 161) | 119 | 161 | 115 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
42 of the 161 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: UNMARRY, MURRAY, REAMY, MARY, MURENA, MURREN, NYM, RAYNE, RENAY, AYRE, ENARM, RENY and 30 more. 4 of the 161 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: RAMEN, RYU, YER and NARE.
This word takes every letter of NUMERARY plus a single extra one.