Hidden inside beggar sit bagger and beggar, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bagger and beggar tie for the highest Scrabble score from beggar at 10 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in beggar: one comes from rearranging its letters, and beggar 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 bagger and beggar, each worth 10 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 beggar. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is barge, 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 beggar produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bare, bear, brag, grab, and rage. For points, the strongest plays are berg, brag, garb, and grab — 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 beggar turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, bag, bar, beg, bra, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are bag, beg, and gab — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in beggar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each 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 beggar 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.
beggar 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for beggar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
beggar is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing beggar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bagger and beggar, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from beggar 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 beggar produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.