Unscramble ARQUEBUS and you have 128 words, ARQUEBUS itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. BRUSQUE and BARQUES are the best of the shorter words, at 18 points. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ARQUEBUS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 10 with 6, 26 with 5, 39 with 4, 37 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Among 39 4-letter words you get when you unscramble ARQUEBUS, the top score is 6, reached by 20. USER, SURE and BASE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of ARQUEBUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with AR · ending in US · all 8-letter words
The meaning of ARQUEBUS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ARQUEBUS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARQUEBUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 128) | 110 | 128 | 105 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BUSERA, ABERS, BAURS, ABER, BAUR, BRUS, BRU, USURE, EAUS, RUSA, URES, AUE and 6 more, 18 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BURQAS, BURQA, BAES, BAE and BES, 5 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of ARQUEBUS plus a single extra one.