Hidden inside yobbo sit booby and yobbo, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
booby and yobbo tie for the highest Scrabble score from yobbo at 12 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in yobbo: one comes from rearranging its letters, and yobbo itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are booby and yobbo, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in yobbo produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boob. For points, the strongest play is boyo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling yobbo turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo and boy. For points, the strongest plays are boy and yob — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in yobbo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with by, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is by — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in yobbo plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in yobbo and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
yobbo 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 yobbo. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
yobbo is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing yobbo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are booby and yobbo, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from yobbo 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 yobbo produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.