bounties needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 231 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bounties is the highest-scoring word from bounties, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 231 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bounties — and it is bounties itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bounties produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are boniest and subtone, 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 bounties turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bentos, betons, bionts, boites, buteos, obtuse, sobeit, subito, subnet, and tobies, 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bounties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bites, bones, bonus, noise, notes, stone, and suite. For points, the strongest plays are bento, bents, besot, beton, bines, bints, biont, bison, bites, boite, bones, bonus, bosun, bouse, bouts, bunts, buteo, butes, ebons, obits, tsubo, and tubes — 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 bounties produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bent, best, bets, bite, bits, bone, and buns. For points, the strongest plays are bens, bent, best, bets, bine, bins, bint, bios, bise, bite, bits, bone, bots, bout, buns, bunt, bust, bute, buts, ebon, nebs, nibs, nobs, nubs, obes, obis, obit, snib, snob, snub, stob, stub, tube, tubs, and unbe — 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 bounties turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, bit, bun, bus, but, its, and net. For points, the strongest plays are ben, bes, bet, bin, bio, bis, bit, bos, bot, bun, bus, but, neb, nib, nob, nub, obe, obi, sib, sob, sub, and tub — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bounties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, in, is, it, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, bi, 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 bounties 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.
bounties 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 four senses for bounties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bounties is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bounties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bounties, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bounties 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 bounties produce 231 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.