Hidden inside becharms sit becharms, brechams, and chambers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 270 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
becharms, brechams, and chambers tie for the highest Scrabble score from becharms at 17 points. The top 10 of 270 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in becharms: two come from rearranging its letters, and becharms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chambers. For points, the strongest plays are becharms, brechams, and chambers — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in becharms produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chamber and marches. For points, the strongest plays are becharm, brecham, chamber, and chambre — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling becharms turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with braces, charms and creams. For points, 9 words tie at 13 points, including charms, baches and brachs.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in becharms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beach, beams and bears. For points, 11 words tie at 12 points, including beach, charm and march.
Rearranging the letters in becharms produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, arms and bare. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including bach, cham and chem.
Unscrambling becharms turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ash. For points, the strongest plays are bah, ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in becharms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in becharms and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
becharms is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for becharms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
becharms is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing becharms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are becharms, brechams, and chambers, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from becharms earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in becharms produce 270 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.