157 words come out when you unscramble ULIGINOUS, starting with ULIGINOUS itself: 10 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. SOILING, LOUSING and SILOING are the best of the shorter words, at 8 points. The 9 letters split into 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ULIGINOUS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 16 with 6, 22 with 5, 51 with 4, 45 with 3 and 19 with 2. None has 8 letters.
Of the 51 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ULIGINOUS, 28 score 5 points, the group's best. LONG, SIGN and SONG are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of ULIGINOUS for another and you can spell these 4 words:
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The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by LOUSING, SILOING and SOILING (8 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts ULIGINOUS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ULIGINOUS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 157) | 116 | 155 | 102 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 39 of them: ULIGINOUS, LOUING, NISGUL, SILING, GUSLI, UNSOUL, GIOS, GONS, INGO, INGS, LIGS, LOUNS and 27 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: LINGOS, LOGINS, LOGIN, NUGS, GIS, GOS, LUNS, NUG, SIG, UNIS, GI, LUN and 2 more. Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: UGLIS and UGLI.
With one more tile, the letters of ULIGINOUS spell the words below.