Unscramble SEGO and you have 17 words, SEGO itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. SEGO has 3 anagrams here, EGOS, GEOS and GOES, scoring 5 like SEGO itself. The best shorter words score 4: 6 of them, EGO, GOS and GEO included. 4 letters: 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SEGO by length: 4 with 4 letters, 8 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of SEGO but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with SE · ending in GO · all 4-letter words
SEGO first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. SEGO 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEGO itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 17) | 13 | 17 | 12 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GEOS, GEO, GOE and SOG, 4 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: GOS.
These 12 words take every letter of SEGO plus a single extra one.