Unscramble GURUISMS to get 83 words. GURUISMS itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are GURUISM and SIMURGS, 10 points each. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from GURUISMS split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 2 with 6, 9 with 5, 32 with 4, 27 with 3 and 10 with 2.
32 4-letter words you get when you unscramble GURUISMS; 7 of them share the top score of 7. MISS, RUGS and GURU are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of GURUISMS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with GU · ending in MS · all 8-letter words
The 5 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by GRIM, GRUM, GUMS, MIGS and MUGS (7 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: GURUISMS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GURUISMS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 83) | 52 | 83 | 44 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 31 of them: GURUISMS, GURUISM, SIMURGS, SIMURG, GISMS, MIURUS, SMUGS, GISM, MUIRS, RIMUS, SMIRS, SMURS and 19 more. Words With Friends* skips 8 of them: SUMIS, SUMI, SIGS, UMS, GIS, SIG, GI and SUS.