Unscramble BEDECKS to get 52 words. BEDECKS itself is a real word: 16 points on a Scrabble board, 18 in Words With Friends. 7 letters: 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of BEDECKS at once for 66 in Scrabble (16 + 50) or 53 in Words With Friends (18 + 35).
B34E1D2E1C34K5S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BEDECKS split into 1 with 7 letters, 3 with 6, 8 with 5, 21 with 4, 14 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of BEDECKS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with BE · ending in KS · all 7-letter words
What BEDECKS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BEDECKS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEDECKS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 52) | 39 | 52 | 35 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 13 of them: BECKES, BECKE, KEBS, DEEK, KEB, KEDS, BEDES, DEBES, KED, BEDE, DEBE, SED and 1 more. Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: SKED, EEK, BES and EDS.