beleaguer needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beleaguer is the highest-scoring word from beleaguer, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in beleaguer — and it is beleaguer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in beleaguer produces 3 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 auberge and beagler, each 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 beleaguer turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with league. For points, the strongest plays are barege, bargee, beagle, beluga, blague, bugler, bulgar, bulger, burgee, burgle, garble, and glebae — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beleaguer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abler, agree, argue, bagel, bluer, large, and rebel. For points, the strongest plays are bagel, barge, belga, bugle, bulge, gable, gleba, glebe, and grebe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in beleaguer produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bare, bear, beer, blue, brag, and glue. For points, the strongest plays are berg, blag, brag, burg, garb, grab, and grub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling beleaguer turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, bag, bar, bee, beg, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are bag, beg, bug, and gab — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beleaguer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in beleaguer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in beleaguer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
beleaguer 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for beleaguer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
beleaguer is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing beleaguer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is beleaguer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from beleaguer 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 beleaguer produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.