Hidden inside besotted sit besotted and obtested, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
besotted and obtested tie for the highest Scrabble score from besotted at 11 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in besotted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and besotted itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are besotted and obtested, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling besotted turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tested. For points, the strongest plays are bested and betted — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besotted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with debts. For points, the strongest plays are bodes, debts, and dobes — 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 besotted produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bees, best, bets, debt, does, and dots. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bode, bods, debs, debt, and dobe — 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 besotted turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee, bet, dot, see, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bod, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in besotted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — 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 besotted and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
besotted 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for besotted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
besotted is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing besotted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are besotted and obtested, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from besotted 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 besotted produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.