What BOSS Means
- noun: a person who exercises control over workers“if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman”
- noun: a person responsible for hiring workers“the boss hired three more men for the new job”
- verb: raise in a relief“embossed stationery”
- adjective: exceptionally good“a boss hand at carpentry”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BOSS 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 S1 S1.
Anagrams of BOSS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BOSS
8 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 (4)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing BOSS
BOSS 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.