Hidden inside ulcers sit lucres and ulcers, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lucres and ulcers tie for the highest Scrabble score from ulcers at 8 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ulcers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ulcers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lucres and ulcers, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ulcers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clues, cruel, cures, curls, curse, lures, and rules. For points, the strongest plays are clues, cruel, cruse, cures, curls, curse, ecrus, luces, lucre, sucre, and ulcer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ulcers produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, cues, cure, curl, lure, rule, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are cels, clue, crus, cues, cure, curl, curs, ecru, ecus, luce, and recs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ulcers turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are cel, cru, cue, cur, ecu, rec, and sec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ulcers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, re, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ulcers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ulcers is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ulcers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
ulcers is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ulcers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lucres and ulcers, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ulcers earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in ulcers produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.