Unscramble BURLESQUE and you have 130 words, BURLESQUE itself among them: it scores 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is BRUSQUE, 18 points. 9 letters: 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
B34U12R1L12E1S1Q10U12E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from BURLESQUE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 7, 8 with 6, 33 with 5, 47 with 4, 30 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 8 letters.
4 of 33 5-letter words you get when you unscramble BURLESQUE tie at 14 points; none scores more. RULES, BLUES and QUEUE will look familiar.
47 4-letter words from BURLESQUE; 18 of them share the top score of 6. USER, BLUE and SURE are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of BURLESQUE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with BU · ending in UE · all 9-letter words
What BURLESQUE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BURLESQUE 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BURLESQUE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 130) | 103 | 130 | 99 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BRULES, BERES, BLEES, BRULE, BULSE, BERE, BLEE, BRUS, SLEB, BRU, LERES, LUSER and 15 more, 27 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: EQUES, RUBELS, RUBEL and BES, 4 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of BURLESQUE spell the words below.