Hidden inside boasts sit boasts and sabots, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boasts and sabots tie for the highest Scrabble score from boasts at 8 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in boasts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boasts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boasts and sabots, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boats and stabs. For points, the strongest plays are basso, basts, boast, boats, botas, sabot, sobas, stabs, and stobs — 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 boasts produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bass, bats, boat, boss, stab, tabs, and toss. For points, the strongest plays are bass, bast, bats, boas, boat, boss, bota, bots, obas, sabs, soba, sobs, 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 boasts turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, bat, sat, and tab. For points, the strongest plays are abs, bas, bat, boa, bos, bot, oba, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boasts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, 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 boasts 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.
boasts 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 three senses for boasts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
boasts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boasts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boasts and sabots, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boasts 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 boasts produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.