Hidden inside bomber sit bomber and mobber, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BBORME, MEBBOR or MBBOER and you get the same 6 letters as BOMBER: so the words from BOMBER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
bomber and mobber tie for the highest Scrabble score from bomber at 12 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in bomber: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bomber itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bomber and mobber, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bomber. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bombe, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling bomber turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mob and rob. For points, the strongest plays are bob, ebb, and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in bomber plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bomber and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
bomber 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 three senses for bomber. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
bomber is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bomber unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bomber and mobber, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bomber 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 bomber produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.