What BOLT Means
- noun: a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder
- noun: a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech
- verb: move or jump suddenly“She bolted from her seat”
- verb: secure or lock with a bolt“bolt the door”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BOLT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 O1 L1 T1.
Anagrams of BOLT (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BOLT
7 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
3 letter words (3)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing BOLT
BOLT appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.