Hidden inside boarts sit aborts, boarts, broast and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aborts, boarts, broast and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from boarts at 8 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in boarts: three come from rearranging its letters, and boarts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, boarts, broast, and tabors — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boarts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, boats, brats, and roast. For points, the strongest plays are abort, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, borts, botas, brats, sabot, and tabor — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boarts produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bars, bats, boat, bras, brat, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are arbs, bars, bast, bats, boar, boas, boat, bora, bort, bota, bots, bras, brat, bros, obas, orbs, robs, soba, sorb, stab, stob, and tabs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boarts turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, bar, bat, bra, rat, rob, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bar, bas, bat, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, oba, orb, rob, sab, sob, and tab — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boarts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in boarts 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.
boarts 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
boarts is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boarts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aborts, boarts, broast, and tabors, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boarts 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 boarts produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.