bollixing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bollixing is the highest-scoring word from bollixing, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in bollixing — and it is bollixing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bollixing produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with billion and boiling. For points, the strongest plays are billing, boiling, and bolling — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bollixing turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is boxing, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bollixing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo. For points, the strongest play is inbox — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bollixing produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bill, blog, boil, lion, and long. For points, the strongest plays are bing, biog, blog, bong, glib, and glob — 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 bollixing turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, box, ill, log, and oil. For points, the strongest play is box — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bollixing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ox and xi — each worth 9 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 bollixing 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.
bollixing 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bollixing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bollixing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bollixing, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bollixing 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 bollixing produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.