Hidden inside aboost is one standout: taboos, a six-letter play worth 8 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ABOOST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TABOOS (verb, form of taboo), to exclude from use, approach, or mention, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
taboos is the highest-scoring word from aboost, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling aboost produces exactly one six-letter word: taboos. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aboost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boats and boots. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including boats, boots and boast.
Rearranging the letters in aboost produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bats, boat and boos. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including bats, boat and boos.
Unscrambling aboost turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, boo and sat. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including bat, boo and tab.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aboost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in aboost plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in aboost and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is taboos, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from aboost earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in aboost produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.