Unscramble ULCER and you have 27 words, ULCER itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. ULCER has 2 anagrams here, CRUEL and LUCRE, scoring 7 like ULCER itself. The best shorter words score 6: 6 of them, CURE, CLUE and CURL included. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ULCER by length: 3 with 5 letters, 8 with 4, 12 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of ULCER but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with UL · ending in ER · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to ULCER:
The meaning of ULCER, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. ULCER 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ULCER itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 27) | 21 | 27 | 20 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CRUE, RUC, LUR, ULE, URE and UR, 6 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CRU.
Each word below uses all the letters of ULCER and one more.