Unscramble OLIGEMIC to get 89 words. OLIGEMIC itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 17 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
O1L12I1G23E1M34I1C34
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from OLIGEMIC by length: 1 with 8 letters, 14 with 5, 27 with 4, 34 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 7 or 6 letters.
Keep every letter of OLIGEMIC but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with OL · ending in IC · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CELOM, CLIME and MELIC (9 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
OLIGEMIC 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| OLIGEMIC itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 89) | 70 | 89 | 58 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 19 of them: OLIGEMIC, OGMIC, CLEM, COGIE, MICO, MOILE, CIEL, LOGIE, LOME, GLEI, GOEL, GOLE and 7 more. Words With Friends* skips 12 of them: CEILI, CLEG, LOCIE, MIC, CIG, MEG, ECO, EMO, LOC, MOI, GI and OI.
This word takes every letter of OLIGEMIC plus a single extra one.