Unscramble BALSAMROOT and you have 288 words, BALSAMROOT itself among them: it scores 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, BLASTOMA and TOMBOLAS lead with 12 points. 10 letters: 4 vowels and 6 consonants.
B34A1L12S1A1M34R1O1O1T1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BALSAMROOT split into 1 with 10 letters, 5 with 8, 20 with 7, 60 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2. None has 9 letters.
13 of 60 6-letter words you get when you unscramble BALSAMROOT tie at 10 points; none scores more. ALMOST, MOTORS and ROBOTS will look familiar.
60 5-letter words from BALSAMROOT; 18 of them share the top score of 9. BOOTS, ALARM and BOATS are everyday picks.
Among 60 4-letter words from BALSAMROOT, the top score is 8, reached by 11. BOAT, ATOM and BARS are the familiar ones.
BAM and MOB are the top 3-letter words in BALSAMROOT, 7 points each. MAR, BAR and LAB will look familiar.
Keep every letter of BALSAMROOT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with BA · ending in OT · all 10-letter words
What BALSAMROOT means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BALSAMROOT is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BALSAMROOT itself | Yes | No | No |
| Answers accepted (of 288) | 234 | 287 | 219 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
54 of the 288 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: STROMB, TSAMBA, ABRAM, ALAMORT, AMOROSA, ARBLAST, BAROLOS, BOMAS, BORMS, MOOBS, AROBAS, BALOOS and 42 more. 14 of the 288 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: RAMBLAS, ABLATORS, RAMBLA, SAMBAL, TOOLBARS, ABLATOR, ROBATAS, TOOLBAR, BROAST, ROBATA, OBA, OMA and 2 more. 1 of the 288 answers is missing from Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: BALSAMROOT.
With one more tile, the letters of BALSAMROOT spell the words below.