BUGLE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. BUGLE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BUGLE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BUGLE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BUGLE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How BUGLE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BUGLE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,354.
What does BUGLE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A simple brass wind instrument, without valves, used chiefly for military calls and signals.
A bugle has no valves or keys, so every note it can play comes from the player's lips and breath alone, which is why its calls — reveille, last post, the charge — are built from only a handful of tones. That limitation made it useful long before radios existed: a bugle call carries across a battlefield and needs no training to recognize. The word is unrelated to the identically spelled bugle that names a low-growing garden plant of the mint family.
How BUGLE is used
Countable: a bugle, two bugles. Chiefly military, in phrases like sound the bugle or a bugle call.
- The bugle sounded at dawn across the whole camp.
- He learned to play the bugle before he could read music.
- A single bugle note ended the ceremony.
- The old bugle hung above the mantel, dented but polished.
- Nobody argued once the bugle called them to assemble.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BUGLE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of BUGLE
The 5 tiles of BUGLE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with BUGLE
8 longer words begin with BUGLE.
Words ending in BUGLE
1 words end in BUGLE. Useful as a back hook: play BUGLE onto a word already on the board.
Words with BUGLE inside
1 words contain BUGLE in the middle. Words that start with BUGLE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in BUGLE
Common questions about BUGLE
- Is BUGLE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BUGLE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BUGLE worth?
- BUGLE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BUGLE mean?
- A simple brass wind instrument, without valves, used chiefly for military calls and signals.
- What letters can be added to BUGLE?
- BUGLE takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BUGLE:
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