169 words come out when you unscramble BUSTINGS, starting with BUSTINGS itself: 11 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 10: 4 of them, BUSTING, BUSSING and BUSINGS included. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BUSTINGS split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 9 with 6, 34 with 5, 59 with 4, 48 with 3 and 14 with 2.
BINGS, BUNGS and GIBUS share the top score of 8 among the 5-letter words from BUSTINGS. USING, UNITS and SIGNS are the ones most people know.
59 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BUSTINGS; 6 of them share the top score of 7. SIGN, UNIT and BITS are everyday picks.
Among 48 3-letter words you get when you unscramble BUSTINGS, the top score is 6, reached by 4. BUT, ITS and BIG are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of BUSTINGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BU · ending in GS · all 8-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; BUSINGS, BUSSING, BUSTING and TUBINGS (10 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BUSTINGS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUSTINGS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 169) | 136 | 167 | 125 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
33 of the 169 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BUSTINGS, BINGS, BUISTS, BUSTIS, GIBUS, BUIST, BUSTI, GIUSTS, GUBS, SUINGS, BIST, GIUST and 21 more. 11 of the 169 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BING, SUSING, NUGS, SIGS, GIS, NUG, SIG, UNIS, GI, SUS and UNI. 2 of the 169 answers are missing from Scrabble UK: BINTS and BINT.
Each word below uses all the letters of BUSTINGS and one more.