Unscramble VINCULUMS and you have 100 words, VINCULUMS itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. VINCULUM is the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
V45I1N12C34U12L12U12M34S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from VINCULUMS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 8 with 6, 18 with 5, 29 with 4, 33 with 3 and 10 with 2. None has 7 letters.
VINCULUM is the only one of the 8-letter words made with VINCULUMS letters; it scores 15 points.
Keep every letter of VINCULUMS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with VI · ending in MS · all 9-letter words
What VINCULUMS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept VINCULUMS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| VINCULUMS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 100) | 85 | 100 | 70 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
15 of the 100 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: VISCUM, CUSUM, SCLIM, VUMS, ULMINS, MUILS, SIMUL, ULMIN, MUIL, SCUL, UMUS, UMU and 3 more. 15 of the 100 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: UNICUM, CUMS, MICS, VULNS, VUM, MIC, VINS, VULN, SUMI, VIN, UMS, LUNS and 3 more.