Hidden inside borates sit boaster, boaters, borates and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boaster, boaters, borates and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from borates at 9 points. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in borates: four come from rearranging its letters, and borates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boaster, boaters, borates, rebatos, and sorbate, 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 borates turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, barest, and breast. For points, the strongest plays are aborts, barest, baster, boarts, boater, borate, boreas, breast, broast, rebato, sorbet, strobe, tabers, and tabors — 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 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in borates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, bears, beast, beats, boats, brats, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are abets, abort, bares, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, besot, betas, boars, boart, boast, boats, boras, bores, borts, botas, braes, brats, brose, robes, saber, sabot, sabre, sober, taber, tabes, and tabor — 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 borates produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, bare, bars, base, bats, bear, and beat. For points, the strongest plays are abet, arbs, baes, bare, bars, base, bast, bate, bats, bear, beat, best, beta, bets, boar, boas, boat, bora, bore, bort, bota, bots, brae, bras, brat, bros, obas, obes, orbs, rebs, robe, robs, sabe, soba, sorb, stab, stob, and tabs — 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 borates turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, bar, bat, bet, and bra. For points, the strongest plays are abs, arb, bae, bar, bas, bat, bes, bet, boa, bos, bot, bra, bro, oba, obe, orb, reb, rob, sab, sob, and tab — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in borates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, be, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, be, 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.
Swap a single tile in borates and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
borates 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 one sense for borates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
borates is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing borates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boaster, boaters, borates, rebatos, and sorbate, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from borates 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 borates produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.