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BULGE

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BULGE Means

  1. verb: swell or protrude outwards“His stomach bulged after the huge meal”
  2. verb: bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
  3. noun: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings“the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BULGE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 U1 L1 G2 E1.

Anagrams of BULGE (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In BULGE

20 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.

4 letter words (5)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing BULGE

BULGE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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