Hidden inside boles sit boles and lobes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boles and lobes tie for the highest Scrabble score from boles at 7 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in boles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boles and lobes, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boles produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lose. For points, the strongest plays are bels, bole, lobe, lobs, obes, and slob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boles turns up 12 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bel, bes, bos, lob, obe, and sob, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be and so. For points, the strongest plays are be 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 boles and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
boles 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 three senses for boles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
boles is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boles and lobes, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boles 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 boles produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.