Hidden inside bottler sit blotter and bottler, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blotter and bottler tie for the highest Scrabble score from bottler at 9 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in bottler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bottler 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 blotter and bottler, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bottler. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are botel and roble, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bottler produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belt, bore and robe. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including belt, bore and robe.
Unscrambling bottler turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, let and lot. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including bet, rob and bel.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bottler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in bottler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bottler 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.
bottler 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 one sense for bottler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
bottler is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bottler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blotter and bottler, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bottler 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 bottler produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.