Unscramble BEECHNUT and you have 105 words, BEECHNUT itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
B34E1E1C34H43N12U12T1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BEECHNUT split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 3 with 6, 17 with 5, 36 with 4, 34 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in BEECHNUT: CHUTNEE, for 12 points.
CHUB tops the 4-letter words from BEECHNUT at 11 points; next come BETH and BHUT on 9. BEEN, THEN and TEEN will look familiar.
Keep every letter of BEECHNUT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BE · ending in UT · all 8-letter words
What BEECHNUT means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. BEECHNUT is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEECHNUT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 105) | 80 | 105 | 76 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CHENET, HEBEN, BUNCE, CHUT, EECH, CHE, ECH, ETHNE, UNETH, BENET, CH, CTENE and 11 more, 23 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: ECHT, TECH, CENTU, TEC, UTE and TE, 6 in all. Not in Scrabble US: HEBE and CUNT, 2 in all.
This word takes every letter of BEECHNUT plus a single extra one.