Hidden inside bolstering sit bolstering and lobstering, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 938 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bolstering and lobstering tie for the highest Scrabble score from bolstering at 13 points. The top 10 of 938 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in bolstering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bolstering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bolstering and lobstering, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bolstering turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ignoblest and ringbolts, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bolstering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are beltings, biltongs, gilberts and 6 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bolstering produces 85 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belongs, glories and ignores. For points, 19 words tie at 10 points, including belongs, belting and besting.
Unscrambling bolstering turns up 194 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begins, beings and belong. For points, 28 words tie at 9 points, including begins, beings and belong.
There are 253 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bolstering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begin, being and belts. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including begin, being and bingo.
Rearranging the letters in bolstering produces 243 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with begs, belt and bent. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including begs, blog and berg.
Unscrambling bolstering turns up 114 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, bet and big. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including beg, big and bog.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bolstering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, go and in. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in bolstering plus one additional letter.
bolstering 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
bolstering is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bolstering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bolstering and lobstering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bolstering 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 bolstering produce 938 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 85 seven-letter words, 194 six-letter words, 253 five-letter words, 243 four-letter words, 114 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.