Unscramble SCARABEES and you have 219 words, SCARABEES itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is SCARABEE, 12 points. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SCARABEES split into 1 with 9 letters, 1 with 8, 8 with 7, 37 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 40 with 3 and 12 with 2.
SCARABEE is the only one of the 8-letter words in SCARABEES; it scores 12 points.
7 of 37 6-letter words you get when you unscramble SCARABEES tie at 10 points; none scores more. BRACES, RECESS and CEASES will look familiar.
60 5-letter words from SCARABEES; 13 of them share the top score of 9. AREAS, CASES and BEARS are everyday picks.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SCARABEES, 7 score 8 points, the group's best. AREA, CASE and CARE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of SCARABEES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SC · ending in ES · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with SCARABS (11 points).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SCARABEES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCARABEES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 219) | 170 | 218 | 158 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 49 of them: SCARABEES, SCARABEE, BECASSE, ABCEES, SCRABS, ABACS, ABCEE, CABAS, CABRE, SCRAB, SEARCES, ABAC and 37 more. Words With Friends* skips 12 of them: BARCAS, BARCA, REBASES, BASSER, REBASE, BESES, BAES, EASERS, BAE, BES, EASER and ESSE. Scrabble UK skips 1 of them: BAASES.
Each word below uses all the letters of SCARABEES and one more.