Hidden inside eighth sit eighth and height, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eighth and height tie for the highest Scrabble score from eighth at 13 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in eighth: one comes from rearranging its letters, and eighth itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eighth and height, worth 13 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eighth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight and thigh. For points, the strongest plays are heigh, hight, and thigh — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in eighth produces 3 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: high, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eighth turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, heh, hit, the, and tie. For points, the strongest play is heh — 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 eighth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — 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 eighth and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
eighth 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for eighth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
eighth is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eighth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eighth and height, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eighth 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 eighth produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.