Unscramble SOWBUGS to get 55 words. SOWBUGS itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. It has 7 letters, 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of SOWBUGS at once for 63 in Scrabble (13 + 50) or 51 in Words With Friends (16 + 35).
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from SOWBUGS split into 1 with 7 letters, 1 with 6, 3 with 5, 17 with 4, 22 with 3 and 11 with 2.
There is a single one of the 6-letter words in SOWBUGS: SOWBUG, 12 points.
Keep every letter of SOWBUGS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with SO · ending in GS · all 7-letter words
SOWBUGS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: SOWBUGS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOWBUGS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 55) | 37 | 55 | 33 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
18 of the 55 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: GUBS, GUB, SUGOS, WUS, GOSS, OBS, SOGS, SUGO, SUGS, GUS, OB, SOG and 6 more. 4 of the 55 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: SOWBUGS, SOWBUG, GOS and SUS.