Unscramble BUMFUZZLES and you have 135 words, BUMFUZZLES itself among them: it scores 35 in Scrabble and 40 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is BUMFUZZLE, 34 points. The 10 letters split into 3 vowels and 7 consonants.
B34U12M34F4U12Z10Z10L12E1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BUMFUZZLES split into 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 9, 5 with 7, 15 with 6, 20 with 5, 43 with 4, 39 with 3 and 11 with 2. None has 8 letters.
BUMFUZZLE is the only one of the 9-letter words made with BUMFUZZLES letters; it scores 34 points.
Among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble BUMFUZZLES, FUZES leads with 17 points, then ZEBUS on 16 and ZULUS on 14. BLUES, FUELS and FUMES are the familiar ones.
FUZZ tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BUMFUZZLES at 25 points; next come BUZZ and MEZZ on 24. BLUE, SELF and FUEL will look familiar.
Keep every letter of BUMFUZZLES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with BU · ending in ES · all 10-letter words
What BUMFUZZLES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BUMFUZZLES, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUMFUZZLES itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 135) | 100 | 133 | 93 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 33 of them: FUZZLES, FUZZLE, MUZZES, LUZZES, MEZZ, MUZZ, BEFLUMS, BEZ, ZULUS, BEFLUM, ZELS, ZULU and 21 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: BUMFUZZLES, BUMFUZZLE, ZUZ, SEZ, FES, BES, FE, MES and UMS. Scrabble US and Scrabble UK skip 2 of them: EMFS and EMF.