Hidden inside boan sit ban, boa, nab and 2 others, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 12 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ban, boa, nab and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from boan at 5 points. The top 10 of 12 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ban, boa, nab, nob, and oba, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boan 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 boan produce 12 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.