footholds needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
footholds is the highest-scoring word from footholds, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in footholds — and it is footholds itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling footholds produces exactly one eight-letter word: foothold. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footholds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flood, folds and foods. For points, the strongest play is hoofs — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in footholds produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dots, fold and food. For points, the strongest play is hoof — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling footholds turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, hot and lot. For points, the strongest play is foh — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in footholds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ho and of. For points, the strongest plays are ho, of, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in footholds and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
footholds 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 footholds carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for footholds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
footholds is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing footholds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is footholds, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from footholds 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 footholds produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.