Hidden inside boosting sit bongoist and boosting, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bongoist and boosting tie for the highest Scrabble score from boosting at 11 points. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in boosting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boosting 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 bongoist and boosting, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boosting produces 3 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 booting, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boosting turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with booing. For points, the strongest plays are bigots, bingos, boings, bongos, booing, and gibson — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boosting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo, boots, and sting. For points, the strongest plays are bigos, bigot, bingo, biogs, boing, bongo, bongs, and gobos — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boosting produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bits, boos, boot, into, onto, sign, and sing. For points, the strongest plays are bigs, bing, biog, bogs, bong, gibs, gobo, and gobs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boosting turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, bit, boo, goo, got, its, and not. For points, the strongest plays are big, bog, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boosting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, it, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in boosting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boosting 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.
boosting 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.
boosting is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boosting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bongoist and boosting, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boosting 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 boosting produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.