95 words come out when you unscramble URUSHIOL, starting with URUSHIOL itself: 11 in Scrabble, 13 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is HOURIS, 9 points. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from URUSHIOL by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 6, 15 with 5, 33 with 4, 28 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 7 letters.
There is a single one of the 6-letter words made with URUSHIOL letters: HOURIS, 9 points.
15 of 33 4-letter words you get when you unscramble URUSHIOL tie at 7 points; none scores more. HOUR, SOUL and SOIL will look familiar.
Keep every letter of URUSHIOL but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with UR · ending in OL · all 8-letter words
What URUSHIOL means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
URUSHIOL works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| URUSHIOL itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 95) | 66 | 95 | 59 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SOHUR, SUHUR, HOIS, HORS, HUIS, HUSO, LOSH, SHIR, HOI, HUI, ISH, LOIRS and 17 more, 29 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ROSHI, SHIUR, HOS, SHO, SOH, LOR and OI, 7 in all.
This word takes every letter of URUSHIOL plus a single extra one.