boldfaces needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 356 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boldfaces is the highest-scoring word from boldfaces, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 356 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in boldfaces — and it is boldfaces itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boldfaces 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 boldfaces produces 5 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 sofabed, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boldfaces turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blades, cables, closed, and decafs. For points, the strongest plays are decafs and fabled — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boldfaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with based, blade and cable. For points, the strongest plays are decaf and faced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in boldfaces produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, also and bade. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including cafe, calf and face.
Unscrambling boldfaces turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, bad and bed. For points, the strongest plays are caf, fab, and fob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boldfaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and be. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in boldfaces 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.
boldfaces 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 boldfaces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
boldfaces is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boldfaces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is boldfaces, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from boldfaces 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 boldfaces produce 356 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.