beholds needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 122 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beholds is the highest-scoring word from beholds, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 122 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in beholds — and it is beholds itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling beholds turns up 2 six-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: behold, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beholds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holds and holes. For points, the strongest plays are dhole, holds, holed, hosed, and shoed — 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 beholds produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bled, bold, does, held, hold, and hole. For points, the strongest plays are bosh and hobs — each 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 beholds turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, led, old, and she. 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 beholds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, eh, he, ho, oh, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, oh, 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 beholds 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.
beholds 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 one sense for beholds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
beholds is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing beholds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is beholds, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from beholds 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 beholds produce 122 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.