Hidden inside eath sit eath, haet, hate and 2 others, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eath, haet, hate and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from eath at 7 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 four-letter words hiding in eath: four come from rearranging its letters, and eath itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hate and heat. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including hate, heat and eath.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eath. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and eh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in eath 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.
eath 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
eath is one of five four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eath unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eath, haet, hate, heat, and thae, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eath 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 eath produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.