Hidden inside botau is one standout: about, a five-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble OBTUA, OABUT or UATBO and you get the same 5 letters as BOTAU: so the words from BOTAU listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
BOTAU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ABOUT (adverb), approximately, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
about is the highest-scoring word from botau, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling botau produces exactly one five-letter word: about. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in botau and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is about, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from botau 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 botau produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.