Hidden inside boobs sit bobos and boobs, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bobos and boobs tie for the highest Scrabble score from boobs at 9 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in boobs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boobs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boobs. For points, the strongest plays are bobos and boobs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in boobs 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.
boobs 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 boobs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
boobs is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boobs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bobos and boobs, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boobs 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 boobs produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.