Hidden inside boost sit boost and boots, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boost and boots tie for the highest Scrabble score from boost at 7 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in boost: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boost itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boots. For points, the strongest plays are boost and boots — 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 boost produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boos and boot. For points, the strongest plays are boos, boot, bots, and stob — 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 boost turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo and too. For points, the strongest plays are boo, bos, bot, and sob — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so and to. For points, the strongest play is bo — 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 boost 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.
boost 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for boost. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
boost is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boost unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boost and boots, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boost 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 boost produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.