Hidden inside boomerang sit boogerman and boomerang, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 292 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boogerman and boomerang tie for the highest Scrabble score from boomerang at 14 points. The top 10 of 292 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in boomerang: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boomerang itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boogerman and boomerang, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boomerang produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is embargo, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boomerang turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with booger and orange. For points, the strongest plays are bagmen and bregma — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boomerang. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, anger, began, boner, borne, gnome, and groom. For points, the strongest plays are gambe and gombo — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boomerang produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, bang, bare, barn, beam, bean, and bear. For points, the strongest play is gamb — 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 boomerang turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, arm, bag, bam, and ban. For points, the strongest plays are bam and mob — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boomerang. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, be, go, me, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, be, bo, em, ma, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in boomerang plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boomerang and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
boomerang 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for boomerang. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
boomerang is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boomerang unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boogerman and boomerang, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boomerang 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 boomerang produce 292 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.