Hidden inside besmiles sit beslimes and besmiles, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
beslimes and besmiles tie for the highest Scrabble score from besmiles at 12 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in besmiles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and besmiles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beslimes and besmiles, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in besmiles 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 beslime and besmile, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bless, miles, seems, and smile. For points, the strongest play is limbs — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in besmiles produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bees, else and less. For points, the strongest plays are limb and mibs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling besmiles turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, lie, and see. For points, the strongest play is mib — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in besmiles plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in besmiles 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.
besmiles 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
besmiles is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing besmiles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are beslimes and besmiles, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from besmiles 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 besmiles produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.