Unscramble BESTILLS and you have 156 words, BESTILLS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are BILLETS, BESTILL and BITLESS, 9 points each. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BESTILLS split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 16 with 6, 43 with 5, 51 with 4, 29 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Combined: NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words 2024, WOW24 and Words With Friends together. Rude words are left out.
19 of 43 5-letter words from BESTILLS tie at 7 points; none scores more. SITES, STILL and LISTS will look familiar.
Among 51 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BESTILLS, the top score is 6, reached by 16. SITE, LIST and BEST are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of BESTILLS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with BE · ending in LS · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by BILLETS (9 points).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts BESTILLS, but the Words With Friends list does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESTILLS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 156) | 124 | 156 | 118 |
* NWL2023 (US), Collins CSW24 (UK); the Words With Friends list changes.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 32 of them: BESTILLS, BESTILL, BITLESS, BESITS, BESTIS, STILBS, BESIT, BESTI, BLIST, BLITS, SLEBS, STILB and 20 more. Words With Friends* skips 6 of them: BES, LITES, ESTS, EST, TES and TE.
These 3 words take every letter of BESTILLS plus a single extra one.