How many words with USC are there?

This page lists 135 words with USC from our dictionary, each shown with its Scrabble score.

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Words With USC

All 135 words in our dictionary that contain USC — sorted by Scrabble score.

135 words · number = Scrabble score · sorted highest score first

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Why USC words matter

Words containing USC are handy for Scrabble, Words with Friends and word puzzles — filter the list above by length to find the play you need.

This list by the numbers

A few numbers before you scroll: the 135 words here run from 5 to 15 letters, with 10-letter words the largest group (25 entries). Wordle players have 1 five-letter options, and there are 8 seven-letter candidates for a Scrabble bingo. The single best scorer is MUSCULOSKELETAL at 23 points before multipliers.

Chasing points? The best five entries here are MUSCULOSKELETAL (23), SUSCEPTIBILITY (23), INSUSCEPTIBLY (22), INTRAMUSCULARLY (22), INTUSSUSCEPTIVE (22). The longest entry is INTRAMUSCULARLY at 15 letters, and the average word here is worth about 16 points. Letter-wise, U is the workhorse — it appears in 135 of these words, ahead of S (135) and C (135).

Start with these three

When the rack looks hopeless, CUSCUS (6 letters, 10 points) is the kind of quiet play that keeps a game moving.
MUSCAE — a 6-letter, 10-point play that slots into tight board lanes where longer words won't fit.
MUSCAT earns 10 points from just 6 tiles — and it is a word few opponents will bother to challenge.

Round out your set with MUSCLE (10), MUSCA (9), MUSCID (11), TUSCHE (11), MUSCLY (13) — all built from common tiles.

One chunk, many words: USC

If you are studying English, USC is a high-leverage chunk: instead of memorising each word cold, anchor the USC pattern and let the surrounding letters vary. Word-game players get a parallel benefit — when a crossword grid or a Wordle guess reveals the USC sequence, this page is the complete candidate pool, already sorted by Scrabble value.

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