bestows needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bestows is the highest-scoring word from bestows, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in bestows — and it is bestows itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bestows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bests and stews. For points, the strongest plays are bowse and swobs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bestows produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets and boss. For points, the strongest plays are bows, swob, and webs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bestows turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bow and owe. For points, the strongest plays are bow and web — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bestows. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, ew and ow. For points, the strongest plays are ew, ow, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in bestows plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bestows and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
bestows 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 three senses for bestows. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
bestows is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bestows unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bestows, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bestows 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 bestows produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.