Unscramble AMBUSHES and you have 184 words, AMBUSHES itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is AMBUSH, 13 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from AMBUSHES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 17 with 6, 37 with 5, 59 with 4, 49 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Of the 37 5-letter words in AMBUSHES, 13 score 10 points, the group's best. ABUSE, BASES and SHAME are the ones most people know.
Among 59 4-letter words from AMBUSHES, the top score is 9, reached by 16. SAME, BASE and BUSH are the familiar ones.
Of the 49 3-letter words you get when you unscramble AMBUSHES, 6 score 8 points, the group's best. HAS, USE and ASS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of AMBUSHES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with AM · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What AMBUSHES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. AMBUSHES is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMBUSHES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 184) | 150 | 184 | 139 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
34 of the 184 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SAHEBS, SUBHAS, BAHUS, HUMAS, MUSHA, SAHEB, SUBHA, BAHU, EMBUS, HAUSES, HUMA, HAUSE and 22 more. 11 of the 184 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SMUSH, MEH, MASES, SESH, AHS, BAES, BAE, BES, MES, UMS and SUS.
With one more tile, the letters of AMBUSHES spell the words below.