Hidden inside bootstrap sit boatports and bootstrap, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 266 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boatports and bootstrap tie for the highest Scrabble score from bootstrap at 13 points. The top 10 of 266 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in bootstrap: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bootstrap 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 boatports and bootstrap, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bootstrap. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is boatport, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bootstrap 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 patoots and taproot, each 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 bootstrap turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, potato, robots, and troops. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, boarts, broast, pastor, patoot, potato, pottos, robots, taboos, tabors, and troops — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bootstrap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, boats, boots, brats, parts, roast, and robot. For points, the strongest play is probs — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in bootstrap produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bars, bats, boat, boos, boot, and bras. For points, the strongest plays are baps, bops, and prob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling bootstrap turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, bar, bat, boo, bra, poo, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bootstrap. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bo, op, pa, and po — 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 bootstrap plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bootstrap 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.
bootstrap 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for bootstrap. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
bootstrap is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bootstrap unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boatports and bootstrap, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bootstrap 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 bootstrap produce 266 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.