behests needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
behests is the highest-scoring word from behests, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in behests — and it is behests itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling behests turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sheets. For points, the strongest plays 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in behests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bests, 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 behests produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, best, bets, sees, sets, 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 behests turns up 14 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 behests. 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in behests plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in behests and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
behests 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 behests carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for behests. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
behests is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing behests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is behests, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from behests 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 behests produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.