Unscramble BURGESSES and you have 162 words, BURGESSES itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are BURGESS, BURGEES and SUBSERES, 10 points each. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BURGESSES split into 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 7 with 7, 15 with 6, 40 with 5, 52 with 4, 36 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Of the 40 5-letter words from BURGESSES, 6 score 8 points, the group's best. USERS, GUESS and BUSES are the ones most people know.
52 4-letter words in BURGESSES; 6 of them share the top score of 7. USER, SURE and USES are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of BURGESSES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with BU · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
The meaning of BURGESSES, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BURGESSES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURGESSES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 162) | 120 | 162 | 114 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
42 of the 162 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GEBURS, GERBES, GEBUR, GERBE, BERES, GESSES, GRESES, GUBS, RESUSES, BERE, BRUS, GERES and 30 more. 6 of the 162 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BESES, BES, RESES, SUSES, ESSE and SUS.