Hidden inside knobs sit bonks and knobs, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bonks and knobs tie for the highest Scrabble score from knobs at 11 points. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in knobs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and knobs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bonks and knobs, 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 knobs produces 6 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bonk, bosk, knob, and kobs, 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 knobs turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with son. For points, the strongest play is kob — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in knobs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, ok, on, and so. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 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 knobs and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
knobs 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 four senses for knobs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
knobs is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knobs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bonks and knobs, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from knobs 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 knobs produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.