Hidden inside bobstay sit batboys and bobstay, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
batboys and bobstay tie for the highest Scrabble score from bobstay at 14 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in bobstay: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bobstay 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 batboys and bobstay, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bobstay turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is batboy, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bobstay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boats. For points, the strongest play is tabby — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bobstay produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baby, bats, bays, boat, boys, soya, and stab. For points, the strongest play is baby — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bobstay turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, bay, boy, sat, say, soy, and tab. For points, the strongest plays are aby, bay, boy, bys, and yob — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bobstay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, ay, by, oy, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in bobstay plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bobstay 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.
bobstay 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.
bobstay is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bobstay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are batboys and bobstay, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bobstay 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 bobstay produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.