Hidden inside bedews sit bedews and dweebs, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bedews and dweebs tie for the highest Scrabble score from bedews at 12 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bedews: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bedews itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bedews and dweebs, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bedews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sewed and weeds. For points, the strongest plays are bedew and dweeb — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bedews produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bees, seed, webs, and weed. For points, the strongest play is webs — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bedews turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee, see, sew, and web. For points, the strongest play is web — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bedews. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in bedews and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
bedews 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for bedews. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
bedews is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bedews unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bedews and dweebs, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bedews 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 bedews produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.