Hidden inside burghs sit brughs and burghs, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
brughs and burghs tie for the highest Scrabble score from burghs at 12 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in burghs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and burghs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are brughs and burghs, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burghs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with brush. For points, the strongest plays are brugh and burgh — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in burghs produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bugs, bush, hugs, rubs, rugs, and rush. For points, the strongest plays are bruh, buhr, bush, and hubs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling burghs turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bug, bus, hug, rub, rug, sub, and ugh. For points, the strongest play is hub — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burghs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sh, uh, and us. For points, the strongest plays are sh and uh — each worth 5 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 burghs and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
burghs 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for burghs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
burghs is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burghs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are brughs and burghs, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from burghs 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 burghs produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.