Hidden inside busiest sit busiest and subsite, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
busiest and subsite tie for the highest Scrabble score from busiest at 9 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in busiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and busiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with busiest. For points, the strongest plays are busiest and subsite — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in busiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bests, bites and buses. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including bests, bites and buses.
Rearranging the letters in busiest produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets and bite. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including best, bets and bite.
Unscrambling busiest turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bit and bus. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including bet, bit and bus.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in busiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, it, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be and bi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in busiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in busiest 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.
busiest 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.
busiest is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing busiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are busiest and subsite, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from busiest 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 busiest produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.