80 words come out when you unscramble UMBILICUS, starting with UMBILICUS itself: 15 in Scrabble, 21 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from UMBILICUS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 2 with 7, 7 with 6, 14 with 5, 23 with 4, 24 with 3 and 8 with 2.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words in UMBILICUS: BULIMICS, 14 points.
Trade one tile of UMBILICUS for another and you can spell these 2 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with UM · ending in US · all 9-letter words
What UMBILICUS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept UMBILICUS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| UMBILICUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 80) | 67 | 80 | 62 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
13 of the 80 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BULIMUS, LUMBUS, CUSUM, LUMBI, SCLIM, MUILS, SIMUL, MUIL, SCUL, SIMI, UMUS, UMU and 1 more. 5 of the 80 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CUMS, MICS, MIC, SUMI and UMS.