Unscramble BEHAVIORS and you have 263 words, BEHAVIORS itself among them: it scores 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, BEHAVIOR leads with 16 points. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BEHAVIORS split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 7 with 7, 44 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 30 with 2.
BEHAVIOR is the only one of the 8-letter words in BEHAVIORS; it scores 16 points.
12 of 44 6-letter words from BEHAVIORS tie at 12 points; none scores more. VARIES, BRAVES and SAVIOR will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words you get when you unscramble BEHAVIORS, 12 score 11 points, the group's best. ABOVE, HORSE and SAVER are the ones most people know.
Among 60 4-letter words in BEHAVIORS, the top score is 10, reached by 4. HAVE, OVER and SAVE are the familiar ones.
BAH, BOH and HOB share the top score of 8 among the 3-letter words made with BEHAVIORS letters. HAS, BAR and REV are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of BEHAVIORS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with BE · ending in RS · all 9-letter words
What BEHAVIORS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BEHAVIORS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 263) | 206 | 263 | 188 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
57 of the 263 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ASHIVER, HIVERS, HOVEAS, BARISH, BREVIS, HIVER, HOVEA, HOVES, SHEVA, BASHO, BHAIS, SAHEB and 45 more. 18 of the 263 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BISH, HORSIE, ORISHA, BOREAS, HOSER, ROSHI, AHIS, HAOS, AHI, AHS, HOS, SEV and 6 more.
This word takes every letter of BEHAVIORS plus a single extra one.