Hidden inside boster sit sorbet and strobe, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
BOSTER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SORBET and STROBE.
sorbet and strobe tie for the highest Scrabble score from boster at 8 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling boster turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sorbet and strobe, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with robes, sober, and store. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including robes, sober and besot.
Rearranging the letters in boster produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with best, bets and bore. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including best, bets and bore.
Unscrambling boster turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, rob, set, and toe. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including bet, rob and bes.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
24 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in boster plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in boster 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sorbet and strobe, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boster 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 boster produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.