Unscramble FREEBOOT and you have 115 words, FREEBOOT itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
F4R1E1E1B34O1O1T1
Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from FREEBOOT by length: 1 with 8 letters, 9 with 6, 8 with 5, 41 with 4, 41 with 3 and 15 with 2. None has 7 letters.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble FREEBOOT are led by BEEF, FEEB and FORB, 9 points each. FREE, TREE and FEET are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of FREEBOOT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with FR · ending in OT · all 8-letter words
FREEBOOT 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 FREEBOOT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| FREEBOOT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 115) | 92 | 115 | 86 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
23 of the 115 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: REFOOT, TOFORE, FREET, TERFE, BOREE, FEER, ORFE, TERF, BERE, BETE, BOET, BOTE and 11 more. 6 of the 115 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FEEB, FOO, OOF, FE, ROO and TE.
These 2 words take every letter of FREEBOOT plus a single extra one.