tomboys 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, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tomboys is the highest-scoring word from tomboys, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in tomboys — and it is tomboys itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tomboys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boots and booty. For points, the strongest play is boomy — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tomboys produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boom, boos and boot. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including boys, boyo and sybo.
Unscrambling tomboys turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo, boy and mob. For points, the strongest plays are boy, bys, yob, and yom — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tomboys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, my and oy. For points, the strongest plays are by and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tomboys 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.
tomboys 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 1-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 tomboys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
tomboys is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tomboys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tomboys, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tomboys 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 tomboys produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.