Unscramble BACKSEY and you have 116 words, BACKSEY itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. BACKSEY as a single 7-tile play makes 68 in Scrabble, 18 plus the 50 bonus, and 54 in Words With Friends (19 + 35).
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from BACKSEY by length: 1 with 7 letters, 13 with 5, 47 with 4, 42 with 3 and 13 with 2. None has 6 letters.
BYKE, CAKY and YACK share the top score of 13 among the 4-letter words in BACKSEY. BACK, CASE and EASY are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of BACKSEY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with BA · ending in EY · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by BEAKY, CAKEY, CASKY and YACKS (14 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: BACKSEY is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BACKSEY itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 116) | 93 | 116 | 86 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BACKSEY, BYKES, BYKE, ESKY, YESK, ABSEY, BAYES, KEBS, BAYE, KEB, KY, SCYE and 11 more, 23 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: KYES, KYE, ACK, BAES, YAS, BAE and BES, 7 in all.
This word takes every letter of BACKSEY plus a single extra one.