embolden needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
embolden is the highest-scoring word from embolden, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in embolden — and it is embolden itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling embolden turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blonde. For points, the strongest play is mobled — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embolden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bleed, blend, blond, demon, lemon, melon, and model. For points, the strongest plays are demob and embed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in embolden produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, bend, bled, bold, bond, bone, and done. For points, the strongest plays are bend, bled, bode, bold, bond, deem, deme, demo, dobe, dome, meed, meld, mend, mode, and mold — 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 embolden turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee, end, led, men, mob, and old. For points, the strongest play is mob — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in embolden. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, me, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are be, bo, em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in embolden plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in embolden 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.
embolden 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 4-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 embolden. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
embolden is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing embolden unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is embolden, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from embolden 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 embolden produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.