Unscramble SPUDGELS and you have 176 words, SPUDGELS itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from SPUDGELS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 16 with 6, 43 with 5, 60 with 4, 44 with 3 and 9 with 2.
PUDGE tops the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SPUDGELS at 9 points; next come DUPES and DUPLE on 8. GUESS, PULSE and PLUGS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from SPUDGELS, 14 score 7 points, the group's best. USED, LESS and PLUS are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SPUDGELS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SP · ending in LS · all 8-letter words
What SPUDGELS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: SPUDGELS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPUDGELS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 176) | 128 | 176 | 116 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: PLUSSED, PLUSED, PUSLED, SPELDS, SPEUGS, PUSLES, PUSSEL, SPELD, SPEUG, SPUGS, SPULES, UPLED and 36 more, 48 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SPUDGELS, SPUDGEL, PUDGES, PUDGE, DEPS, DEP, SEPS, SUSED, LUDS, EDS, LUD and SUS, 12 in all.
This word takes every letter of SPUDGELS plus a single extra one.