Hidden inside bodies sit bodies and dobies, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SEDBOI, DEISBO or BOSDEI and you get the same 6 letters as BODIES: so the words from BODIES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
bodies and dobies tie for the highest Scrabble score from bodies at 9 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bodies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bodies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bodies. For points, the strongest plays are bodies and dobies — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bodies. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bides, bodes, dobes, and dobie, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bodies produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bids and dibs. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including beds, bids and dibs.
Unscrambling bodies turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, die, and ids. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bed, bid and bod.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bodies. 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.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bodies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bodies 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.
bodies 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bodies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bodies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bodies and dobies, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bodies 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 bodies produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.