Hidden inside bodice sit bodice and ceboid, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bodice and ceboid tie for the highest Scrabble score from bodice at 11 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bodice: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bodice itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bodice and ceboid, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bodice. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cebid, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bodice produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code and dice. For points, the strongest play is bice — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bodice turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, die, and ice. For points, the strongest play is cob — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bodice. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, and id. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bodice plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bodice and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
bodice 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 one sense for bodice. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
bodice is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bodice unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bodice and ceboid, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bodice 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 bodice produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.