Unscramble GAMBOS to get 76 words. GAMBOS itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 14 in Words With Friends. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
G23A1M34B34O1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from GAMBOS by length: 1 with 6 letters, 6 with 5, 23 with 4, 33 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Keep every letter of GAMBOS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with GA · ending in OS · all 6-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by GAMBS (10 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
GAMBOS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAMBOS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 76) | 65 | 76 | 57 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 11 of them: GAMBOS, GAMBO, BOMAS, BOMA, BAOS, BAO, OBS, SAM, SMA, OB and SOG. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: OBAS, OMAS, SOBA, OBA, OMA, SOM, AGS and GOS.
These 2 words take every letter of GAMBOS plus a single extra one.