bedposts 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, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bedposts is the highest-scoring word from bedposts, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bedposts — and it is bedposts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bedposts produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bedpost, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bedposts turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posted and tossed. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including posted, bossed and depots.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bedposts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bests, debts and poets. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including debts, posed and bodes.
Rearranging the letters in bedposts produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, best and bets. For points, the strongest play is bops — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bedposts turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bet and dot. For points, the strongest play is bop — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bedposts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, so, and to. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, bo and op.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in bedposts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bedposts 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.
bedposts 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 one sense for bedposts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
bedposts is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bedposts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bedposts, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bedposts 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 bedposts produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.