Hidden inside bestiary sit bestiary and sybarite, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 318 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bestiary and sybarite tie for the highest Scrabble score from bestiary at 13 points. The top 10 of 318 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in bestiary: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bestiary 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 bestiary and sybarite, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bestiary produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with betrays. For points, the strongest plays are barytes and betrays — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bestiary turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, betray, breast, rabies, and tribes. For points, the strongest plays are baryes, baryte, bayest, betray, and yerbas — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bestiary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, bears, beast, beats, bites, brats, and raise. For points, the strongest plays are abyes, barye, bayer, bitsy, brays, byres, bytes, and yerba — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bestiary produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts, bait, bare, bars, base, and bats. For points, the strongest plays are abye, abys, bays, beys, bray, byes, byre, and byte — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bestiary turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are, art, ate, aye, bar, and bat. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, bey, bye, and bys — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bestiary. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, be, by, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 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 bestiary 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.
bestiary 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in bestiary carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for bestiary. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
bestiary is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bestiary unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bestiary and sybarite, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bestiary 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 bestiary produce 318 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.