bobtails needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bobtails is the highest-scoring word from bobtails, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bobtails — and it is bobtails itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bobtails produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bilboas and bobtail, each 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 bobtails turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abbots, bilboa, bilbos, and tabbis, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bobtails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bails, baits, blast, boats, boils, and tails. For points, the strongest plays are abbot, bilbo, blabs, and blobs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bobtails produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, bail, bait, bats, bits, boat, and boil. For points, the strongest plays are bibs, blab, blob, bobs, and sibb — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bobtails turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bat, bit, its, lab, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are bib and bob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bobtails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, is, it, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in bobtails plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bobtails 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.
bobtails 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 3-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 bobtails. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
bobtails is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bobtails unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bobtails, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bobtails 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 bobtails produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.