Hidden inside bestowal sit bestowal, stowable, and teabowls, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 339 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bestowal, stowable, and teabowls tie for the highest Scrabble score from bestowal at 13 points. The top 10 of 339 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in bestowal: two come from rearranging its letters, and bestowal 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 bestowal, stowable, and teabowls, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bestowal produces 5 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 sowable, teabowl, and towable, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bestowal turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ablest, bowels and elbows. For points, the strongest plays are belows, bestow, bowels, and elbows — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bestowal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beast, beats and below. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including below, blows and bowel.
Rearranging the letters in bestowal produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, also and base. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including blew, blow and bowl.
Unscrambling bestowal turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, bat and bet. For points, the strongest plays are bow, wab, and web — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bestowal. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and aw. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ew and ow.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in bestowal plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bestowal 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.
bestowal 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 bestowal. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
bestowal is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bestowal unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bestowal, stowable, and teabowls, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bestowal 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 bestowal produce 339 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.