Hidden inside blessed sit bedless and blessed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bedless and blessed tie for the highest Scrabble score from blessed at 10 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in blessed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blessed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blessed. For points, the strongest plays are bedless and blessed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blessed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bleed, bless, and seeds. For points, the strongest plays are bedel and bleed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blessed produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bees and bled. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bled, and debs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blessed turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee, led, and see. For points, the strongest plays are bed and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in blessed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blessed 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.
blessed 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 six senses for blessed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
blessed is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blessed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bedless and blessed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blessed 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 blessed produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.