What BUGGING Means
BUGGING is a form of BUG, which means:
- noun: general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
- noun: a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
- verb: annoy persistently“The children teased the boy because of his stammer”
- verb: tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information“The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BUGGING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 G2 G2 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In BUGGING
29 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (2)
4 letter words (5)
3 letter words (15)
2 letter words (7)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.