Unscramble BESITTING and you have 202 words, BESITTING itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are BETTINGS and BITTINGS, 11 points each. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from BESITTING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 8, 13 with 7, 21 with 6, 45 with 5, 60 with 4, 45 with 3 and 14 with 2.
Among 21 6-letter words you get when you unscramble BESITTING, the top score is 9, reached by 6. BEGINS, BEINGS and BITING are the familiar ones.
5 of 45 5-letter words from BESITTING tie at 8 points; none scores more. BEING, BEGIN and STEIN will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BESITTING, 5 score 7 points, the group's best. BEST, SIGN and SENT are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of BESITTING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
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The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by BETTINGS and BITTINGS (11 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts BESITTING, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESITTING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 202) | 162 | 200 | 146 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
40 of the 202 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BESITTING, BINGIES, BITINGS, BESING, BETING, BITTIES, BINGS, BITTIE, BEINS, BENIS, BESIT, BESTI and 28 more. 16 of the 202 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BETTINGS, BING, STINGE, GITES, BES, GITE, NEGS, STENT, TEINS, GIS, NEG, SIG and 4 more. 2 of the 202 answers are missing from Scrabble UK: BINTS and BINT.
These 2 words take every letter of BESITTING plus a single extra one.