Hidden inside booths sit bhoots and booths, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bhoots and booths tie for the highest Scrabble score from booths at 11 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in booths: one comes from rearranging its letters, and booths itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with booths. For points, the strongest plays are bhoots and booths — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in booths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with booth, boots, hobos, and shoot. For points, the strongest plays are bhoot, bohos, booth, and hobos — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in booths produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boos, boot and both. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including both, hobo and boho.
Unscrambling booths turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, hot and oho. For points, the strongest play is hob — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in booths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in booths plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in booths and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
booths 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in booths carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for booths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
booths is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing booths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bhoots and booths, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from booths 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 booths produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.