Hidden inside burgles sit buglers, bulgers, and burgles, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
buglers, bulgers, and burgles tie for the highest Scrabble score from burgles at 10 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in burgles: two come from rearranging its letters, and burgles 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 buglers, bulgers, and burgles, 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 burgles turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bugler, bugles, bulger, bulges, and burgle, 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burgles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bluer, blues, glues, lures, rules, and urges. For points, the strongest plays are bergs, bugle, bulge, burgs, and grubs — 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 burgles produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, blue, bugs, glue, legs, lure, and rubs. For points, the strongest plays are begs, berg, bugs, burg, and grub — 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 burgles turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, bug, bus, leg, rub, rug, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in burgles. 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 burgles 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.
burgles 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 4-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 burgles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
burgles is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing burgles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are buglers, bulgers, and burgles, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from burgles 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 burgles produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.