Hidden inside boodling sit blooding and boodling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blooding and boodling tie for the highest Scrabble score from boodling at 12 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in boodling: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boodling itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are blooding and boodling, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in boodling produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bolding and globoid, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling boodling turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with booing. For points, the strongest play is boding — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boodling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo, blind and blond. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including bingo, blind and blond.
Rearranging the letters in boodling produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bind, blog and boil. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including bind, blog and bold.
Unscrambling boodling turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, big and boo. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including bid, big and bod.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boodling. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in boodling plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boodling and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
boodling 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.
boodling is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boodling unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blooding and boodling, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boodling 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 boodling produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.