Hidden inside toolbars sit barstool and toolbars, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
barstool and toolbars tie for the highest Scrabble score from toolbars at 10 points. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in toolbars: one comes from rearranging its letters, and toolbars itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are barstool and toolbars, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in toolbars produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are borstal, robalos, and toolbar, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling toolbars turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, labors, and robots. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including aborts, labors and robots.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toolbars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, blast and boats. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including abort, blast and boats.
Rearranging the letters in toolbars produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arts and bars. For points, 39 words tie at 6 points, including bars, bats and boat.
Unscrambling toolbars turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, bar and bat. For points, 21 words tie at 5 points, including bar, bat and boo.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toolbars. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at and or. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in toolbars plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in toolbars and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
toolbars is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
toolbars is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing toolbars unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are barstool and toolbars, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from toolbars 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 toolbars produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.