Unscramble BESIEGING and you have 137 words, BESIEGING itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, BIGGINS and BIGGIES lead with 11 points. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from BESIEGING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 5 with 7, 15 with 6, 23 with 5, 48 with 4, 35 with 3 and 10 with 2. None has 8 letters.
BIGGS scores highest among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble BESIEGING at 9 points, ahead of BEGIN and BEIGE on 8. BEING, GENES and SIEGE are the ones most people know.
BIGG tops the 4-letter words from BESIEGING at 8 points; next come BEGS and BIGS on 7. BEEN, SIGN and SEEN will look familiar.
Keep every letter of BESIEGING but one, change that one, and you get:
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The meaning of BESIEGING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. BESIEGING 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESIEGING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 137) | 108 | 137 | 96 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
29 of the 137 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BINGIES, BESING, BIGGS, BIGG, BINGS, GINGES, BEINS, BENIS, GINGE, GINGS, BEIN, BENI and 17 more. 12 of the 137 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BEIGNES, BEIGNE, BING, IGGS, BES, IGG, NEGS, ESNE, GIS, NEG, SIG and GI.
Each word below uses all the letters of BESIEGING and one more.