12 words come out when you unscramble BOLO, starting with BOLO itself: 6 in Scrabble, 8 in Words With Friends. 3 anagrams of BOLO are on the page: BOOL, LOBO and OBOL, each 6 points. The strongest shorter words are BOO, LOB and OBO, 5 points each. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from BOLO split into 4 with 4 letters, 4 with 3 and 4 with 2.
Keep every letter of BOLO but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with BO · ending in LO · all 4-letter words
What BOLO means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
BOLO works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOLO itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 12) | 8 | 12 | 8 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
4 of the 12 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: BOOL, OBO, OB and OO.
With one more tile, the letters of BOLO spell the words below.