Unscramble BUGLE to get 22 words. BUGLE itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. BUGLE has 1 anagram here, BULGE, scoring 8 like BUGLE itself. The best shorter words score 6: 5 of them, BLUE, BUG and BEG included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BUGLE by length: 2 with 5 letters, 5 with 4, 11 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of BUGLE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with BU · ending in LE · all 5-letter words
What BUGLE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BUGLE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUGLE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 22) | 16 | 22 | 16 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
6 of the 22 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GUB, GULE, GUE, GU, UG and ULE.
These 12 words take every letter of BUGLE plus a single extra one.