Unscramble URTICARIA and you have 91 words, URTICARIA itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. 9 shorter words score 8, among them URTICA, CARRAT and CRATUR. The 9 letters split into 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from URTICARIA by length: 1 with 9 letters, 9 with 6, 19 with 5, 26 with 4, 27 with 3 and 9 with 2. None has 8 or 7 letters.
Keep every letter of URTICARIA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with UR · ending in IA · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CURARA, CURARI, IATRIC and URATIC (8 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept URTICARIA, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| URTICARIA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 91) | 60 | 91 | 52 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
31 of the 91 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CARRAT, CRATUR, TAURIC, TRICAR, URTICA, ARTIC, CARTA, CURAT, CUIT, RACA, AARTI, CAA and 19 more. 8 of the 91 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: CAURI, ACAI, CRIA, CRIT, CRU, RAITA, TURR and RAI.
These 2 words take every letter of URTICARIA plus a single extra one.