Unscramble SMUG and you have 16 words, SMUG itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. 2 anagrams of SMUG are on the page: GUMS and MUGS, each 7 points. Of the shorter words, MUG and GUM lead with 6 points. The 4 letters split into 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from SMUG by length: 3 with 4 letters, 8 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of SMUG but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with SM · ending in UG · all 4-letter words
What SMUG means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SMUG, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMUG itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 16) | 11 | 16 | 10 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 5 of them: GUS, SUG, UGS, GU and UG. Words With Friends* skips 1 of them: UMS.
These 9 words take every letter of SMUG plus a single extra one.