Unscramble BOSQUES to get 44 words. BOSQUES itself is a real word: 18 points on a Scrabble board, 20 in Words With Friends. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of BOSQUES in one turn: 68 in Scrabble (18 + 50), 55 in Words With Friends (20 + 35).
B34O1S1Q10U12E1S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from BOSQUES split into 1 with 7 letters, 3 with 6, 4 with 5, 10 with 4, 17 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of BOSQUES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with BO · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
BOSQUES first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept BOSQUES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOSQUES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 44) | 40 | 44 | 36 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Words With Friends* skips 4 of them: QUESOS, QUESO, BES and SUS. Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 4 of them: OBS, OB, OUS and OU.
This word takes every letter of BOSQUES plus a single extra one.