Unscramble BITEWING and you have 93 words, BITEWING itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
B34I1T1E1W4I1N12G23
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BITEWING split into 1 with 8 letters, 7 with 6, 11 with 5, 27 with 4, 35 with 3 and 12 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Among the 3-letter words you get when you unscramble BITEWING, WEB leads with 8 points, then WIG on 7 and BEG on 6. NEW, GET and BIG are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of BITEWING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with BI · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
What BITEWING means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BITEWING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BITEWING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 93) | 80 | 92 | 71 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 13 of them: BETING, WINGE, INWIT, BEIN, BENI, BIEN, EWT, IWI, GEIT, TIGE, ING, TIG and 1 more. Words With Friends* skips 9 of them: GWINE, NEWB, BING, EW, GITE, NEG, TEIN, GI and TE. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: BINT.
This word takes every letter of BITEWING plus a single extra one.