Unscramble PUNGLE and you have 50 words, PUNGLE itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 9 points: PLUNGE. UNPEG is the best of the shorter words, at 8 points. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from PUNGLE split into 2 with 6 letters, 2 with 5, 13 with 4, 24 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of PUNGLE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with PU · ending in LE · all 6-letter words
What PUNGLE means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept PUNGLE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PUNGLE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 50) | 38 | 50 | 35 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
12 of the 50 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GUP, PLUE, GULE, LENG, LEP, NEP, PEL, PLU, GUE, GU, UG and ULE. 3 of the 50 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NEG, NUG and LUN.
These 6 words take every letter of PUNGLE plus a single extra one.