beholden needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beholden is the highest-scoring word from beholden, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in beholden — and it is beholden itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling beholden turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with behold and blonde. For points, the strongest plays are beheld and behold — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beholden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bleed, blend, blond, and noble. For points, the strongest plays are dhole, holed, and honed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in beholden produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, bend, bled, bold, bond, bone, and done. For points, the strongest plays are heed, held, hoed, hold, and ohed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling beholden turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee, end, hen, led, old, and one. For points, the strongest play is hob — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beholden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, eh, he, ho, no, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — 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 beholden 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.
beholden 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 beholden. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
beholden is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing beholden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is beholden, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from beholden 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 beholden produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.