Unscramble ERGO and you have 21 words, ERGO itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: GOER, GORE, OGRE and REGO. Among the shorter answers, 8 reach 4 points, EGO, ERG and GEO among them. 4 letters: 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ERGO split into 5 with 4 letters, 11 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of ERGO but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with ER · ending in GO · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to ERGO:
What ERGO means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ERGO 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERGO itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 21) | 16 | 21 | 15 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
5 of the 21 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: REGO, GEO, GER, GOE and REO. 1 of the 21 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: ORG.
Each word below uses all the letters of ERGO and one more.