Hidden inside eighths sit eighths, heights, and highest, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eighths, heights, and highest tie for the highest Scrabble score from eighths at 14 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in eighths: two come from rearranging its letters, and eighths itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eighths, heights, and highest, worth 14 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling eighths turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eighth, height, and thighs. For points, the strongest plays are eighth, height, hights, and thighs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eighths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, sight, and thigh. For points, the strongest plays are heigh, highs, 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 eighths produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gets, high, hits, site, this, and ties. For points, the strongest play is 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 eighths turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with get, heh, his, hit, its, set, and she. For points, the strongest plays are heh and shh — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eighths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in eighths plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in eighths and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
eighths 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 eighths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
eighths is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing eighths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eighths, heights, and highest, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eighths 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 eighths produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.