Hidden inside bungles sit blunges and bungles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blunges and bungles tie for the highest Scrabble score from bungles at 10 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in bungles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bungles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blunges and bungles, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bungles turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blunge, bugles, bulges, and bungle, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bungles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begun, blues, glues, and lungs. For points, the strongest plays are begun, bugle, bulge, and bungs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bungles produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, blue, bugs, buns, glue, guns, and legs. For points, the strongest plays are begs, bugs, and bung — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bungles turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, bug, bun, bus, gun, leg, and sub. For points, the strongest plays are beg and bug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bungles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and us. For points, the strongest play is be — worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in bungles and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
bungles is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for bungles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bungles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bungles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blunges and bungles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bungles earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in bungles produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.