Unscramble BEMEANS and you have 149 words, BEMEANS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 11 points: BASEMEN and BENAMES. The best shorter words score 10: 5 of them, BEMEAN, BENAME and EMBASE included. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of BEMEANS in one turn: 61 in Scrabble (11 + 50), 49 in Words With Friends (14 + 35).
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from BEMEANS split into 3 with 7 letters, 10 with 6, 28 with 5, 53 with 4, 39 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Among 28 5-letter words you get when you unscramble BEMEANS, the top score is 9, reached by 5. MEANS, NAMES and BEANS are the familiar ones.
53 4-letter words from BEMEANS; 4 of them share the top score of 8. BEEN, NAME and SAME are everyday picks.
BAM scores highest among the 3-letter words from BEMEANS at 7 points, ahead of ABS and AME on 5. SEE, MAN and MEN are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of BEMEANS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with BE · ending in NS · all 7-letter words
What BEMEANS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BEMEANS works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEMEANS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 149) | 109 | 149 | 100 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 40 of them: EMBASE, NEEMBS, NEEMB, ENSEAM, MEANES, AMENE, BASEN, MEANE, MEASE, MENES, SAMEN, SEAME and 28 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: MANEBS, MANEB, BAES, BAE, BES, MES, ESNE, NAES and SAN.
Each word below uses all the letters of BEMEANS and one more.