Hidden inside boluses sit blouses and boluses, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blouses and boluses tie for the highest Scrabble score from boluses at 9 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in boluses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boluses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blouses and boluses, 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 boluses turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louses. For points, the strongest plays are blouse, boules, bouses, and obelus — 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boluses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bless, blues, buses, loses, louse, and souls. For points, the strongest plays are bless, blues, boles, bolus, boule, bouse, buses, lobes, lubes, slobs, and slubs — 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 boluses produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blue, boss, less, lose, loss, soul, and subs. For points, the strongest plays are bels, blue, bole, boss, buss, lobe, lobs, lube, obes, slob, slub, sobs, and subs — 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 boluses turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bus, sub, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are bel, bes, bos, bus, lob, obe, sob, and sub — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boluses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, so, and us. 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 boluses and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
boluses 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.
boluses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boluses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blouses and boluses, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boluses 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 boluses produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.