Hidden inside boave is one standout: above, a five-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
BOAVE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ABOVE (noun), something that is in a higher place, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
above is the highest-scoring word from boave, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling boave produces exactly one five-letter word: above. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boave turns up 8 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ave, avo, ova, and voe, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in boave plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boave and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is above, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from boave 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 boave produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.