kobolds needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kobolds is the highest-scoring word from kobolds, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in kobolds — and it is kobolds itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kobolds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blood, books, and looks. For points, the strongest plays are books and kobos — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in kobolds produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bold, book and boos. For points, the strongest plays are book, bosk, kobo, and kobs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in kobolds 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.
kobolds 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.
kobolds is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kobolds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is kobolds, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from kobolds 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 kobolds produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.