Unscramble BENEFACTOR to get 288 words. BENEFACTOR itself is a real word: 17 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is BENEFACT, 15 points. The 10 letters split into 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
B34E1N12E1F4A1C34T1O1R1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from BENEFACTOR by length: 1 with 10 letters, 3 with 8, 16 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 28 with 2. None has 9 letters.
CONFAB tops the 6-letter words you get when you unscramble BENEFACTOR at 13 points; next come BEFORE and BEFRET on 11. CENTER, CREATE and CENTRE will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words from BENEFACTOR, 9 score 10 points, the group's best. AFTER, FRONT and OFTEN are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words from BENEFACTOR; 12 of them share the top score of 9. FREE, FACT and FACE are everyday picks.
CAF, FAB and FOB are the top 3-letter words in BENEFACTOR, 8 points each. CAN, CAR and ACT will look familiar.
Keep every letter of BENEFACTOR but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with BE · ending in OR · all 10-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CONFAB (13 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. BENEFACTOR 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENEFACTOR itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 288) | 223 | 288 | 205 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 65 of them: BENEFACT, CANTREF, BACONER, CARBEEN, CARBENE, FORCAT, FRACT, ABCEE, ABORTEE, AFRONT, BAFT, CABRE and 53 more. Words With Friends* skips 18 of them: FRANCO, BONCE, FEEB, TEREFA, BANC, CAF, CANOER, FAB, FREON, TREFA, AFRO, BENTO and 6 more.
These 2 words take every letter of BENEFACTOR plus a single extra one.