Unscramble BOILINGLY and you have 134 words, BOILINGLY itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. IGNOBLY is the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. The 9 letters split into 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BOILINGLY split into 1 with 9 letters, 7 with 7, 16 with 6, 21 with 5, 39 with 4, 34 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 8 letters.
BOGY, BOYG and GOBY share the top score of 10 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble BOILINGLY. ONLY, LONG and BLOG are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of BOILINGLY but one, change that one, and you get:
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What BOILINGLY means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BOILINGLY, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOILINGLY itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 134) | 103 | 133 | 92 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
31 of the 134 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BLINGY, BOYING, BILLYO, BINGY, GLOBY, YILLING, BOYG, BILING, LIONLY, LOBING, OBIING, GIBLI and 19 more. 11 of the 134 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: BOILINGLY, BLINY, BLING, GYNO, BING, BIOG, BLOG, LOGIN, LILO, GI and OI. 1 of the 134 answers is missing from Scrabble UK: GOY.
This word takes every letter of BOILINGLY plus a single extra one.