busybodies needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 200 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
busybodies is the highest-scoring word from busybodies, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 200 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in busybodies — and it is busybodies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling busybodies produces exactly one eight-letter word: disobeys. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in busybodies produces 8 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: busboys, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling busybodies turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bodies and busboy. For points, the strongest play is busboy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in busybodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buses, issue, and sides. For points, the strongest play is dobby — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in busybodies produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bids and body. For points, the strongest plays are body and doby — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling busybodies turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid and boy. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including boy, buy and bye.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in busybodies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, by and do. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
busybodies 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.
busybodies is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing busybodies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is busybodies, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from busybodies 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 busybodies produce 200 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.