Playing words that start with BER
Leading with BER lets you hook onto open columns and reach premium squares. Scan the high-scoring entries above first — they offer the best return when you have the tiles.
This list by the numbers
A few numbers before you scroll: the 93 words here run from 4 to 12 letters, with 8-letter words the largest group (28 entries). Wordle players have 7 five-letter options, and there are 19 seven-letter candidates for a Scrabble bingo. The single best scorer is BERHYMING at 20 points before multipliers.
For quick reference, the top of the score table reads: BERHYMING (20), BEREAVEMENTS (19), BERHYMED (19), BEREAVEMENT (18), BERHYMES (18). BEREAVEMENTS (12 letters) stretches furthest, while the list-wide average score sits near 13 points. Letter-wise, E is the workhorse — it appears in 93 of these words, ahead of B (93) and R (93).
Three easy picks from this list
- When the rack looks hopeless, BERATE (6 letters, 8 points) is the kind of quiet play that keeps a game moving.
- BERETS — 6 letters for 8 points; every tile in it is a common draw, so it shows up rack after rack.
- Playing BERLIN across a double-word square turns its base 8 points into 16 — solid value for 6 tiles.
Round out your set with BERET (7), BERGS (8), BERIME (10), BERMES (10), BERG (7) — all built from common tiles.
One chunk, many words: BER
If you are studying English, BER is a high-leverage chunk: instead of memorising each word cold, anchor the BER pattern and let the surrounding letters vary. Word-game players get a parallel benefit — when a crossword grid or a Wordle guess reveals the BER sequence, this page is the complete candidate pool, already sorted by Scrabble value.
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