Hidden inside bobos sit bobos and boobs, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bobos and boobs tie for the highest Scrabble score from bobos at 9 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in bobos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bobos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boobs. For points, the strongest plays are bobos and boobs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in bobos 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.
bobos is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
bobos is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bobos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bobos and boobs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bobos 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 bobos produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.