79 words come out when you unscramble EMBUSSES, starting with EMBUSSES itself: 12 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are BEMUSES and EMBUSES, 11 points each. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from EMBUSSES by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 7 with 6, 14 with 5, 26 with 4, 20 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of EMBUSSES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with EM · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with BEMUSES (11 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
EMBUSSES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMBUSSES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 79) | 58 | 79 | 51 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 21 of them: EMBUSSES, EMBUSES, EMBUS, SMEUSES, MEUSES, SMEUSE, MESES, MEUSE, MUSSE, SMEES, MEES, MESE and 9 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: BESES, BES, MES, SUSES, UMS, ESSE and SUS.
With one more tile, the letters of EMBUSSES spell the words below.