78 words come out when you unscramble GAMBES, starting with GAMBES itself: 11 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. GAMBE and GAMBS are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from GAMBES split into 1 with 6 letters, 8 with 5, 28 with 4, 29 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of GAMBES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with GA · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
What GAMBES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
GAMBES 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAMBES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 78) | 69 | 78 | 61 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
9 of the 78 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: EGMAS, EGMA, AMES, MASE, AME, SAM, SMA, EAS and EA. 8 of the 78 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MEGA, MEGS, BAES, MEG, BAE, BES, MES and AGS.
These 5 words take every letter of GAMBES plus a single extra one.