Hidden inside boulders sit boulders and doublers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boulders and doublers tie for the highest Scrabble score from boulders at 11 points. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in boulders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boulders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boulders and doublers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boulders produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doubles. For points, the strongest plays are bloused, bordels, boulder, doubler, doubles, and rosebud — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boulders turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bolder, double, and louder. For points, the strongest plays are bolder, bordel, boused, burled, deburs, desorb, double, redubs, and sorbed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boulders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bluer, blues, bored, lords, loser, louse, and lured. For points, the strongest plays are blued, bodes, bolds, bored, burds, bused, debur, dobes, drubs, lobed, lubed, orbed, redub, and robed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boulders produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, bled, blue, bold, bore, bred, and buds. For points, the strongest plays are beds, bedu, bled, bode, bods, bold, bred, buds, burd, debs, dobe, drub, and dubs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boulders turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bud, bus, due, led, old, and our. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bod, bud, deb, and dub — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boulders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are 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 boulders and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
boulders 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 3-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 boulders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
boulders is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boulders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boulders and doublers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boulders 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 boulders produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.