Hidden inside ahoy sit ahoy and hoya, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ahoy and hoya tie for the highest Scrabble score from ahoy at 10 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in ahoy: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ahoy itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy. For points, the strongest plays are ahoy and hoya — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ahoy turns up 4 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hay. For points, the strongest plays are hay, hoy, and yah — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ahoy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, ay, ha, ho, oh, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ay, ha, ho, oh, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ahoy and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
ahoy is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ahoy is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ahoy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ahoy and hoya, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ahoy earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in ahoy produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.