Hidden inside colobuses sit colobuses and lobscouse, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
colobuses and lobscouse tie for the highest Scrabble score from colobuses at 13 points. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in colobuses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and colobuses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are colobuses and lobscouse, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling colobuses produces exactly one eight-letter word: subcools. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in colobuses produces 6 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 boucles, colobus, and subcool, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling colobuses turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes and louses. For points, the strongest plays are boucle and cobles — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in colobuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bless, blues and buses. For points, the strongest plays are blocs, clubs, coble, and cubes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in colobuses produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blue, boos and boss. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including club, cube and bloc.
Unscrambling colobuses turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, bus and cue. For points, the strongest plays are cob and cub — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in colobuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in colobuses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in colobuses and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
colobuses is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for colobuses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
colobuses is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing colobuses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are colobuses and lobscouse, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from colobuses 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 colobuses produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.