Unscramble GENUS and you have 38 words, GENUS itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 6 points: NEGUS. The best shorter words score 5: 10 of them, GUNS, SUNG and GNUS included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
Looking for nuges, gunes, gnues, sunge, sueng, unges, gusen, sngue, egnus or geuns? They use the same letters as GENUS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from GENUS split into 2 with 5 letters, 10 with 4, 18 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Trade one tile of GENUS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
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The meaning of GENUS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. GENUS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GENUS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 38) | 31 | 38 | 27 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 7 of them: GUES, GUE, GUS, SUG, UGS, GU and UG. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: NEGS, NUGS, NEG and NUG.
These 12 words take every letter of GENUS plus a single extra one.