Hidden inside below sit below, bowel, and elbow, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
below, bowel, and elbow tie for the highest Scrabble score from below at 10 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in below: two come from rearranging its letters, and below itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: below, bowel, and elbow, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in below. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, ew, ow, and we. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in below and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
below 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 four senses for below. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
below is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing below unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are below, bowel, and elbow, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from below 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 below produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.