Hidden inside betokens sit betokens and steenbok, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
betokens and steenbok tie for the highest Scrabble score from betokens at 14 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in betokens: one comes from rearranging its letters, and betokens 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 betokens and steenbok, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in betokens produces 4 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 beknots and betoken, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling betokens turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beknot and bosket, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in betokens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bones, knees, knots, notes, stone, teens, and tense. For points, the strongest plays are bonks and knobs — 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 betokens produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, bees, bent, best, bets, bone, and knee. For points, the strongest plays are bonk, bosk, knob, and kobs — 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 betokens turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bet, net, not, one, see, and set. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in betokens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, no, ok, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is ok — 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 betokens 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.
betokens 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 betokens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
betokens is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing betokens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are betokens and steenbok, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from betokens 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 betokens produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.