boldface needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boldface is the highest-scoring word from boldface, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in boldface — and it is boldface itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boldface produces exactly one seven-letter word: codable. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boldface 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 word is fabled, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boldface. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blade, cable, decaf, and faced. For points, the strongest plays are decaf and faced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in boldface produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bade and bald. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including cafe, calf and face.
Unscrambling boldface turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bad, bed and cab. For points, the strongest plays are caf, fab, and fob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boldface. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, be, do, and of. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in boldface plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boldface 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.
boldface 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 two senses for boldface. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
boldface is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boldface unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is boldface, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from boldface 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 boldface produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.