Hidden inside boasters sit boasters and sorbates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 336 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boasters and sorbates tie for the highest Scrabble score from boasters at 10 points. The top 10 of 336 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in boasters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boasters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boasters and sorbates, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boasters produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with breasts. For points, the strongest plays are basters, boaster, boaters, borates, breasts, broasts, rebatos, sorbate, sorbets, and strobes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boasters turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, barest, beasts, breast, roasts, sorest, and stares. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, barest, basest, basser, basset, baster, bastes, beasts, besots, boarts, boasts, boater, borate, boreas, bosser, breast, broast, broses, rebato, sabers, sabots, sabres, sobers, sorbet, strobe, tabers, 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 88 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, bases, bears, beast, beats, bests, and boats. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abort, bares, baser, bases, basso, baste, basts, bates, bears, beast, beats, besot, bests, betas, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, bores, borts, botas, braes, brass, brats, brose, robes, saber, sabes, sabot, sabre, sobas, sober, sorbs, stabs, stobs, taber, tabes, 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 boasters produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bare, bars, base, bass, bats, and bear. For points, the strongest plays are abet, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bass, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, best, beta, bets, boar, boas, boat, bora, bore, bort, boss, bota, bots, brae, bras, brat, bros, obas, obes, orbs, rebs, robe, robs, sabe, sabs, soba, sobs, 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 boasters turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ass, ate, bar, bat, and bet. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bes, bet, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, oba, obe, orb, reb, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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 boasters and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
boasters 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for boasters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
boasters is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boasters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boasters and sorbates, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boasters 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 boasters produce 336 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 88 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.