Hidden inside lobster sit bolster, bolters, and lobster, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble LEBROST, TROBLES or BROTLES and you get the same 7 letters as LOBSTER: so the words from LOBSTER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
bolster, bolters, and lobster tie for the highest Scrabble score from lobster at 9 points. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in lobster: two come from rearranging its letters, and lobster itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lobster. For points, the strongest plays are bolster, bolters, and lobster — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lobster turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are bolter, botels, robles and 2 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lobster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belts, blest and loser. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including belts, blest and robes.
Rearranging the letters in lobster produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with belt, best and bets. For points, 22 words tie at 6 points, including belt, best and bets.
Unscrambling lobster turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bet, let and lot. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including bet, rob and bel.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lobster. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
12 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lobster plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lobster 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.
lobster 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for lobster. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
lobster is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lobster unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bolster, bolters, and lobster, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lobster 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 lobster produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.