Unscramble SNUG and you have 19 words, SNUG itself among them: it scores 5 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. It has 4 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: GNUS, GUNS, NUGS and SUNG. The best shorter words score 4: 6 of them, GNU, GUN and GUS included. 4 letters: 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from SNUG by length: 5 with 4 letters, 9 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of SNUG but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with SN · ending in UG · all 4-letter words
SNUG first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SNUG, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNUG itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 19) | 14 | 19 | 12 |
* 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 2 of them: NUGS and NUG.
With one more tile, the letters of SNUG spell the words below.