Unscramble BEWAILED and you have 175 words, BEWAILED itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. 8 letters: 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
B34E1W4A1I1L12E1D2
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from BEWAILED split into 1 with 8 letters, 14 with 6, 32 with 5, 60 with 4, 47 with 3 and 21 with 2. None has 7 letters.
The 5-letter words made with BEWAILED letters are led by BEDEW and DWEEB, 11 points each. IDEAL, BLADE and ABIDE are the familiar ones.
BAWD tops the 4-letter words from BEWAILED at 10 points; next come BAWL and BLAW on 9. ABLE, WIDE and IDEA will look familiar.
WAB and WEB share the top score of 8 among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble BEWAILED. LAW, BAD and BID are the ones most people know.
These 6 words have the length of BEWAILED, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with BE · ending in ED · all 8-letter words
BEWAILED first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BEWAILED, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BEWAILED itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 175) | 138 | 175 | 127 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 37 of them: DEAWIE, DEBILE, DIABLE, DWILE, WAIDE, AWDL, AWEEL, BILED, DEAW, DEBEL, WAID, WALD and 25 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: BALDIE, DWALE, ABLED, BEEDI, WALIE, WALI, BEAL, EEW, BAE, EW and DA.
This word takes every letter of BEWAILED plus a single extra one.