Hidden inside boasting sit boasting and boatings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
boasting and boatings tie for the highest Scrabble score from boasting at 11 points. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in boasting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and boasting 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 boasting and boatings, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boasting produces 9 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 bagnios, basting, boating, and gabions, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boasting turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with basing, giants, and tangos. For points, the strongest plays are bagnio, basing, bating, bigots, bingos, biogas, bogans, boings, gabion, gibson, and gobans — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boasting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with baits, bangs, bingo, boats, gains, giant, and goats. For points, the strongest plays are bangs, bigos, bigot, bingo, biogs, bogan, boing, bongs, and goban — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in boasting produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, bags, bait, bang, bans, bats, and bits. For points, the strongest plays are bags, bang, bigs, bing, biog, bogs, bong, gabs, gibs, and gobs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling boasting turns up 69 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, ant, bag, ban, bat, big, and bit. For points, the strongest plays are bag, big, bog, gab, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in boasting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, go, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in boasting 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.
boasting 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 3-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 boasting. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
boasting is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing boasting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are boasting and boatings, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from boasting 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 boasting produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 69 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.