beforehand needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 356 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beforehand is the highest-scoring word from beforehand, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 356 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in beforehand — and it is beforehand itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beforehand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forehead. For points, the strongest plays are forehand, forehead, and freehand — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in beforehand produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forbade. For points, the strongest plays are bodhran and forbade — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling beforehand turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with before, deafer and earned. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including forbad, barfed and behead.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beforehand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, beard and board. For points, the strongest play is foehn — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in beforehand produces 119 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, band and bare. For points, the strongest play is fohn — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling beforehand turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and bad. For points, the strongest plays are fah, feh, and foh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beforehand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
beforehand 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 two senses for beforehand. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
beforehand is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing beforehand unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is beforehand, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from beforehand 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 beforehand produce 356 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 119 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.