boldfaced needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boldfaced is the highest-scoring word from boldfaced, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in boldfaced — and it is boldfaced itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boldfaced produces exactly one eight-letter word: boldface. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in boldfaced produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is codable, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boldfaced turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with folded and loaded. For points, the strongest play is fabled — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boldfaced. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boldfaced produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, bade, bald, bled, bold, cafe, and calf. For points, the strongest plays are cafe, calf, clef, face, flab, and floc — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boldfaced turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, bad, bed, cab, dad, elf, and fed. For points, the strongest plays are caf, fab, and fob — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boldfaced. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in boldfaced and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
boldfaced 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.
boldfaced is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boldfaced unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is boldfaced, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from boldfaced 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 boldfaced produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.