Hidden inside bedels sit bedels and bleeds, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bedels and bleeds tie for the highest Scrabble score from bedels at 9 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bedels: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bedels itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bleeds. For points, the strongest plays are bedels and bleeds — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bedels. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bleed. For points, the strongest plays are bedel and bleed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bedels produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bees, bled, else, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bled, and debs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bedels turns up 15 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bedels. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: be, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in bedels 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.
bedels 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.
bedels is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bedels unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bedels and bleeds, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bedels 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 bedels produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.