Hidden inside behest sit behest and thebes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 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.
behest and thebes tie for the highest Scrabble score from behest at 11 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 behest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and behest 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 behest and thebes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in behest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sheet and these. For points, the strongest plays are beths and thebe — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in behest produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, best, bets, and thee. For points, the strongest play is beth — 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 behest turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bet, see, set, she, and the. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hes, het, she, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in behest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and sh — 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 behest 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.
behest 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in behest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for behest. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
behest is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing behest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are behest and thebes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from behest 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 behest produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.