besmirches needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 303 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
besmirches is the highest-scoring word from besmirches, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 303 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in besmirches — and it is besmirches itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmirches. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is besmirch, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in besmirches produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mercies, messier, and schemes. For points, 9 words tie at 14 points, including schemes, birches and chemise.
Unscrambling besmirches turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheers, crimes and crises. For points, the strongest play is chimbs — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmirches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, cheer and chess. For points, the strongest play is chimb — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in besmirches produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer, bees and crib. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling besmirches turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, her and him. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including him, chi and hem.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmirches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
besmirches 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 two senses for besmirches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
besmirches is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing besmirches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is besmirches, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from besmirches 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 besmirches produce 303 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.