Hidden inside boasted sit boasted and saboted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boasted and saboted tie for the highest Scrabble score from boasted at 10 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in boasted: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boasted 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 boasted and saboted, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boasted turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abodes, adbots, adobes and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boasted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with based, beast and beats. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including based, debts and abode.
Rearranging the letters in boasted produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, base and bats. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including bade, beds and debt.
Unscrambling boasted turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate and bad. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bod.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boasted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in boasted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boasted 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.
boasted 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.
boasted is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boasted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boasted and saboted, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boasted 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 boasted produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.