Unscramble BESTOWING and you have 288 words, BESTOWING itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. 9 letters: 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from BESTOWING by length: 1 with 9 letters, 18 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 29 with 2. None has 8 letters.
The 6-letter words in BESTOWING are led by BEWIGS, BOWGET and BOWING, 12 points each. BEGINS, SEWING and BEINGS are the familiar ones.
BEWIG tops the 5-letter words from BESTOWING at 11 points; next come BOWES and BOWET on 10. BEING, BEGIN and WINGS will look familiar.
Among 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BESTOWING, the top score is 9, reached by 4. NEWS, WEST and TOWN are the familiar ones.
BOW and WEB share the top score of 8 among the 3-letter words made with BESTOWING letters. NEW, NOW and GET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of BESTOWING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with BE · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
BESTOWING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BESTOWING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BESTOWING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 288) | 232 | 285 | 209 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
54 of the 288 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BOWGETS, BOWGET, BOWETS, BOWNES, BOWSIE, TOWINGS, TOWSING, BOWES, BOWET, BOWIE, BOWNE, TWONIES and 42 more. 23 of the 288 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BINGOES, NEWBS, BOINGS, GWINE, NEWB, BENTOS, BIGOS, BIOGS, OWIES, BENTO, BING, BIOG and 11 more. 2 of the 288 answers are missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: BOWTIES and BOWTIE. 1 of the 288 answers is missing from Scrabble UK: BINTS.
With one more tile, the letters of BESTOWING spell the words below.