bedmates needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 210 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bedmates is the highest-scoring word from bedmates, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 210 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bedmates — and it is bedmates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bedmates produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with debates and steamed. For points, the strongest play is bedmate — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bedmates turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with debate, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are beamed and embeds — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bedmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with based, beams and beast. For points, the strongest play is embed — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bedmates produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, base and bats. For points, the strongest plays are bams, beam, bema, and mabe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bedmates turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate and bad. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bedmates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in bedmates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bedmates 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.
bedmates 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.
bedmates is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bedmates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bedmates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bedmates 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 bedmates produce 210 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.