Jumble solved
Is BURGESSES a word? Yes.
BURGESSES is a valid word in the Scrabble dictionary — 9 letters, worth 12 points before any premium squares. It rearranges into 1 anagram, with 118 words hidden inside it.
- Total words
- 118
- Full anagrams
- 1
- Longest answer
- 9 letters
- Vowels : consonants
- 3 : 6
To solve the scramble by hand, set the 3 vowels (U, E, E) aside first, then try common beginnings and endings — re-, un-, -ing, -ed, -er — against the 6 remaining consonants (B, R, G, S, S, S).
Anagrams of BURGESSES
One word uses all 9 letters:
- burgesses
9-letter words
1 word found8-letter words
2 words found- subseres10
7-letter words
6 words found6-letter words
10 words found5-letter words
31 words found+ 16 more 5-letter words
4-letter words
38 words found+ 23 more 4-letter words
3-letter words
25 words found+ 10 more 3-letter words
2-letter words
5 words foundWords hidden inside BURGESSES
Without moving a single letter, reading burgesses straight through uncovers 8 shorter words — burgess, esses, urges, burg, esse, urge, and more. The longest unbroken run is burgess.
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Best words for tile games
Playing Scrabble or Words with Friends? These finds carry the highest tile values (before any bonus squares).
Letter breakdown
Total Letters
9
Distinct
6
Vowels
33%
U, E, E
Consonants
67%
B, R, G, S, S, S
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Solving BURGESSES: common questions
How do you unscramble the letters burgesses?
Rearranging the 9 letters in burgesses produces 118 valid words in total. A quick way to crack a scramble is to pull the vowels out first, then test familiar beginnings and endings (such as re-, un-, -ing, -ed and -er) against the consonants that are left. That approach lands the 9-letter answer burgesses here. Every arrangement below is checked against a standard word list, so anything listed is a real word.
Does burgesses have any anagrams?
Using all 9 letters, burgesses rearranges into exactly one word: burgesses.
What is the longest word you can make from burgesses?
The longest solution is burgesses at 9 letters — it uses the most tiles of any word here.
What are the easiest short words from burgesses?
Short answers are the quickest to spot: burgesses yields bee, beg, bes, bug, bur, bus, ere, erg, ers and ess. Two- and three-letter words are handy for warming up, for tricky racks, and for hooking onto letters already on the board in games like Scrabble and Words with Friends.
Which word from burgesses scores best in Scrabble or Words with Friends?
If you are playing a tile game, burgesses is the top scorer from burgesses at 12 points, followed by subseres (10), burgees (10) and burgess (10). Scores depend on the board, but these are the highest face values before any bonus squares.
What smaller words are hidden inside burgesses?
Read left to right without moving any letters and burgesses already contains 8 shorter words: burgess, esses, urges, burg, esse and urge (plus 2 more). The longest run of consecutive letters that spells a word is burgess. Because this depends on the exact order, each spelling of the same letters hides a different set.