Unscramble BANDSAWS and you have 100 words, BANDSAWS itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, BANDSAW leads with 13 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BANDSAWS split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 6 with 6, 19 with 5, 35 with 4, 29 with 3 and 9 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in BANDSAWS: BANDSAW, 13 points.
BAWD tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BANDSAWS at 10 points; next come BAWN and SWAB on 9. BAND, BASS and SAND will look familiar.
Keep every letter of BANDSAWS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BA · ending in WS · all 8-letter words
What BANDSAWS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: BANDSAWS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BANDSAWS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 100) | 85 | 100 | 74 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ABANDS, ADAWS, SWADS, ABAND, ADAW, BASANS, SWAD, BASAN, SNABS, SNAB, NADS, SADS and 3 more, 15 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: BANDSAWS, BANDSAW, BAWNS, BANDAS, BAWN, BANDA, DANS, DAN, DAS, DA and SAN, 11 in all.