Hidden inside bottled sit blotted and bottled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BOTTDLE, BLODTET or TELOBDT and you get the same 7 letters as BOTTLED: so the words from BOTTLED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
blotted and bottled tie for the highest Scrabble score from bottled at 10 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in bottled: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bottled 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 blotted and bottled, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bottled. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is lobed, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bottled produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belt, bled and bold. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including bled, bold and debt.
Unscrambling bottled turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bet and dot. For points, the strongest plays are bed, bod, and deb — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bottled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, do, and to. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in bottled 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.
bottled 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.
bottled is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bottled unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are blotted and bottled, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bottled 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 bottled produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.