BUGEYE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. BUGEYE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUGEYE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUGEYE is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUGEYE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
bugeyesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BUGEYE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in BUGEYE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 376,279.
What does BUGEYE mean in Scrabble?
noun
nautical
A small two-masted sailing boat once used for dredging oysters on Chesapeake Bay.
The bugeye was a working boat of the Chesapeake, developed in the nineteenth century to drag oyster dredges across the beds. It was built from logs hollowed out and joined together, carried two raked masts with triangular sails, and had a long low hull. The type faded as fishing methods changed, and the word now belongs mostly to maritime history.
How BUGEYE is used
Mainly historical and regional; used by writers on American sailing craft.
- The old bugeye still sits in the museum harbour.
- He learned to sail aboard a bugeye as a boy.
- A bugeye with a full load of oysters sat low in the water.
- The painter showed a bugeye leaning into the wind off the bay.
- Few people can now tell a bugeye from a skipjack at a glance.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUGEYE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BUGEYE
1 longer words begin with BUGEYE.
Shorter words from the letters in BUGEYE
Common questions about BUGEYE
- Is BUGEYE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUGEYE, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUGEYE worth?
- BUGEYE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUGEYE mean?
- A small two-masted sailing boat once used for dredging oysters on Chesapeake Bay.
- What letters can be added to BUGEYE?
- BUGEYE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of BUGEYE:
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