Unscramble TUBERCLE to get 140 words. TUBERCLE itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
T1U12B34E1R1C34L12E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from TUBERCLE by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 10 with 6, 35 with 5, 47 with 4, 37 with 3 and 9 with 2.
LECTURE is the only one of the 7-letter words made with TUBERCLE letters; it scores 9 points.
CELEB, CUBER and REBEC are the top 5-letter words from TUBERCLE, 9 points each. REBEL, ELECT and CRUEL will look familiar.
CLUB, CUBE and CURB share the top score of 8 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble TUBERCLE. BLUE, TRUE and TREE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of TUBERCLE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with TU · ending in LE · all 8-letter words
What TUBERCLE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept TUBERCLE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| TUBERCLE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 140) | 118 | 140 | 112 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
22 of the 140 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BECURL, CERULE, CULTER, RECULE, BLERT, BRULE, BERE, BETE, BLEE, CREE, CRUE, BRU and 10 more. 6 of the 140 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: RUBEL, CERT, CRU, TEC, UTE and TE.
This word takes every letter of TUBERCLE plus a single extra one.