128 words come out when you unscramble SUPERBUG, starting with SUPERBUG itself: 13 in Scrabble, 18 in Words With Friends. SUPERB and UPSURGE are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SUPERBUG by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 5 with 6, 26 with 5, 43 with 4, 42 with 3 and 10 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in SUPERBUG: UPSURGE, 10 points.
BURP, PUBE and PUBS share the top score of 8 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SUPERBUG. USER, SURE and PURE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of SUPERBUG for another and you can spell these 5 words:
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What SUPERBUG means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SUPERBUG is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUPERBUG itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 128) | 97 | 128 | 92 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 31 of them: GEBURS, GEBUR, SPEUG, GUBS, GUPS, PUERS, PURES, SPUER, SPUG, BRUS, GUB, GUP and 19 more. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: SUPERBUG, PUBE, URPS, BES and URP.
This word takes every letter of SUPERBUG plus a single extra one.