Hidden inside betrays sit barytes and betrays, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barytes and betrays tie for the highest Scrabble score from betrays at 12 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in betrays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and betrays itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. 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 betrays turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with barest, betray, and breast. 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in betrays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bears, beast, beats, brats, rates, stare, and tears. For points, the strongest plays are abyes, barye, bayer, 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 betrays produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bare, bars, base, bats, bays, and bear. 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 betrays turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, aye, bar, bat, and bay. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in betrays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, be, and by. 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 betrays and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
betrays 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 betrays carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for betrays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
betrays is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing betrays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barytes and betrays, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from betrays 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 betrays produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.