Hidden inside ghast sit ghast and ghats, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ghast and ghats tie for the highest Scrabble score from ghast at 9 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ghast: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ghast itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ghast and ghats, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ghast produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hats and tags. For points, the strongest plays are gash, ghat, hags, and shag — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ghast turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, gas, has, hat, sat, and tag. For points, the strongest play is hag — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghast. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, ha, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, 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.
Swap a single tile in ghast 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.
ghast 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 ghast carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
ghast is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ghast unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ghast and ghats, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ghast 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 ghast produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.