Hidden inside ephod sit ephod and hoped, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ephod and hoped tie for the highest Scrabble score from ephod at 11 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ephod: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ephod itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoped. For points, the strongest plays are ephod and hoped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ephod produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hope. For points, the strongest plays are hope and pheo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ephod turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hop, peh, pho, and poh — each worth 8 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 ephod. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, he, ho, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — 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 ephod and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
ephod 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in ephod carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
ephod is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ephod unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ephod and hoped, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ephod 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 ephod produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.