Hidden inside boilers sit boilers and reboils, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boilers and reboils tie for the highest Scrabble score from boilers at 9 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in boilers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boilers 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 boilers and reboils, 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 boilers turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are birles, boiler, broils, libers, reboil, ribose, and robles, 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boilers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boils, loser, robes, roles, and sober. For points, the strongest plays are biers, biles, birle, birls, biros, birse, boils, boles, bores, bries, brios, broil, brose, liber, lobes, obeli, ribes, robes, roble, and sober — 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 boilers produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boil, bore, lies, lose, oils, ribs, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are bels, bier, bile, bios, birl, biro, bise, boil, bole, bore, brie, brio, bris, bros, libs, lobe, lobs, obes, obis, orbs, rebs, ribs, robe, robs, slob, and sorb — 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 boilers turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, oil, rib, rob, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are bel, bes, bio, bis, bos, bro, lib, lob, obe, obi, orb, reb, rib, rob, sib, and sob — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boilers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, is, or, 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 boilers 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.
boilers 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 two senses for boilers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
boilers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boilers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boilers and reboils, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boilers 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 boilers produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.