Hidden inside besmoking sit besmoking and embosking, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
besmoking and embosking tie for the highest Scrabble score from besmoking at 18 points. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in besmoking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and besmoking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are besmoking and embosking, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in besmoking produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smoking. For points, the strongest play is gemsbok — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling besmoking turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begins, beings, and gnomes. For points, the strongest play is embosk — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmoking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, being, bikes, bingo, bones, gnome, and kings. For points, the strongest plays are bikes, boink, bonks, kibes, knobs, mikes, minke, minks, mokes, monks, and smoke — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in besmoking produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, bike, bone, egos, goes, gone, and inks. For points, the strongest plays are bike, bisk, bonk, bosk, kibe, knob, kobs, mike, mink, moke, monk, mosk, and skim — 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 besmoking turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, ego, ink, men, mob, and one. For points, the strongest play is kob — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmoking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, go, in, is, me, no, and ok. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in besmoking 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.
besmoking 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.
besmoking is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing besmoking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are besmoking and embosking, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from besmoking 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 besmoking produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.