Unscramble SMUGNESS and you have 101 words, SMUGNESS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. MUNGES is the best of the shorter words, at 9 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
Looking for ngsmuses? They use the same letters as SMUGNESS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
S1M34U12G23N12E1S1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SMUGNESS split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 6, 14 with 5, 37 with 4, 34 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Of the 37 4-letter words from SMUGNESS, 8 score 7 points, the group's best. MENU, USES and GUNS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SMUGNESS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SM · ending in SS · all 8-letter words
SMUGNESS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SMUGNESS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMUGNESS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 101) | 81 | 101 | 69 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
20 of the 101 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MUNGES, MENGS, MUNGE, SMUGS, MENG, MUSSE, MEUS, UMES, GUES, MEU, SUGS, UME and 8 more. 12 of the 101 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MUNGS, MEGS, MUNG, MEG, MES, NEGS, NUGS, SUSES, UMS, NEG, NUG and SUS.