behooves needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
behooves is the highest-scoring word from behooves, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in behooves — and it is behooves itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in behooves produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are behoove and behoves, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling behooves turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoboes. For points, the strongest play is behove — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in behooves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hobos and shove. For points, the strongest play is shove — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in behooves produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, boos, eves, hobo, hose, shoe, and shoo. For points, the strongest play is hove — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling behooves turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, boo, eve, oho, see, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in behooves. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh, he, ho, oh, sh, and so. 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 behooves 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.
behooves 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.
behooves is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing behooves unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is behooves, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from behooves 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 behooves produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.