Unscramble SMALLBOY and you have 178 words, SMALLBOY itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from SMALLBOY by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 7 with 6, 38 with 5, 60 with 4, 51 with 3 and 20 with 2.
There is a single one of the 7-letter words in SMALLBOY: LAMBOYS, 14 points.
ABYSM, BALMY and LAMBY share the top score of 12 among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble SMALLBOY. SMALL, BALLS and SALLY are the ones most people know.
MOBY tops the 4-letter words from SMALLBOY at 11 points; next come ABLY and ABYS on 9. BOYS, BALL and MALL will look familiar.
Keep every letter of SMALLBOY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with SM · ending in OY · all 8-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; SYMBOL (13 points) takes the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SMALLBOY is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLBOY itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 178) | 138 | 178 | 130 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
40 of the 178 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SMALLBOY, LAMBOYS, MOBY, MYALLS, BLAYS, LYAMS, MOYAS, MOYLS, MYALL, BLAY, BOMAS, LYAM and 28 more. 8 of the 178 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: MOLYS, OBAS, OMAS, SOBA, YAS, OBA, OMA and SOM.
This word takes every letter of SMALLBOY plus a single extra one.