Hidden inside thob is one standout: both, a four-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 9 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
THOB isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to BOTH (adjective), being the two, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
both is the highest-scoring word from thob, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 9 of 9 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling thob produces exactly one four-letter word: both. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in thob and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is both, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from thob 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 thob produce 9 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 4 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.