besmears needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
besmears is the highest-scoring word from besmears, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in besmears — and it is besmears itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in besmears produces 4 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 ambeers and besmear, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling besmears turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erases. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including ambeer, ambers and bermes.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bases, beams and bears. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including beams, amber and barms.
Rearranging the letters in besmears produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, bare and bars. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including beam, bams and barm.
Unscrambling besmears turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ass. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmears. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, be, and me. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in besmears plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in besmears 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.
besmears 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 one sense for besmears. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
besmears is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing besmears unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is besmears, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from besmears 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 besmears produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.