Hidden inside blotter sit blotter and bottler, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TROLBET, BOLTTER or LEOBRTT and you get the same 7 letters as BLOTTER: so the words from BLOTTER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
blotter and bottler tie for the highest Scrabble score from blotter at 9 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in blotter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and blotter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blotter and bottler, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blotter. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are botel and roble, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blotter produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belt, bore and robe. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including belt, bore and robe.
Unscrambling blotter turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, let and lot. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including bet, rob and bel.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blotter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in blotter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blotter and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
blotter is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for blotter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
blotter is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blotter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blotter and bottler, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from blotter 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 blotter produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.