Hidden inside bereft sit befret and bereft, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
befret and bereft tie for the highest Scrabble score from bereft at 11 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bereft: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bereft itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are befret and bereft, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bereft produces exactly one five-letter word: beret. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bereft produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beef, beer and feet. For points, the strongest plays are beef and feeb — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in bereft plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bereft and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
bereft 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 two senses for bereft. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
bereft is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bereft unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are befret and bereft, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bereft 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 bereft produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 15 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.