besmirching needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 413 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
besmirching is the highest-scoring word from besmirching, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 413 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in besmirching — and it is besmirching itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling besmirching turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is smirching, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmirching. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is besmirch, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in besmirching produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shinier. For points, the strongest plays are chiming and miching — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling besmirching turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begins, beings, brings, crimes, hiring, inches, and rising. For points, the strongest play is chimbs — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmirching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, being, bench, bring, chins, cribs, and cries. For points, the strongest play is chimb — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in besmirching produces 113 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, chin, crib, germ, hens, hers, and hire. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling besmirching turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, big, hen, her, him, his, and ice. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hem, hic, him, ich, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besmirching. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, eh, he, hi, hm, in, and is. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in besmirching plus one additional letter.
besmirching 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
besmirching is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing besmirching unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is besmirching, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from besmirching 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 besmirching produce 413 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 113 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.