Hidden inside boiled sit boiled and bolide, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 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.
boiled and bolide tie for the highest Scrabble score from boiled at 9 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 boiled: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boiled itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boiled. For points, the strongest plays are boiled and bolide — each worth 9 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 boiled. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bield, dobie, and lobed, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boiled produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bled, boil, bold, deli, and lied. For points, the strongest plays are bide, bled, bode, bold, and dobe — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boiled turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bid, die, led, lid, lie, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bid, bod, deb, and dib — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boiled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, and id. For points, the strongest plays are be, 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.
Swap a single tile in boiled 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.
boiled 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for boiled. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
boiled is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boiled unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boiled and bolide, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boiled 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 boiled produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.