Hidden inside ghostlier sit ghostlier and regoliths, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 494 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ghostlier and regoliths tie for the highest Scrabble score from ghostlier at 13 points. The top 10 of 494 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ghostlier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ghostlier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ghostlier and regoliths, 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 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghostlier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slighter. For points, the strongest plays are ghostier, lighters, regolith, relights, and slighter — 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 ghostlier produces 28 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with glories, holiest, hostile, and lighter. For points, the strongest plays are hoglets, hogties, lighter, ogreish, relight, resight, sighter, and sleight — each 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 ghostlier turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holier, hotels, lights, orgies, others, rights, and sleigh. For points, the strongest plays are eights, girths, griths, hoglet, hogtie, lights, ogrish, righto, rights, sigher, sleigh, and slight — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 135 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghostlier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eight, ghost, girls, hires, holes, horse, and hotel. For points, the strongest plays are eight, ghost, girsh, girth, goeth, goths, grith, light, right, shogi, and sight — 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 ghostlier produces 148 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legs, lets, lies, list, logs, lose, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are shog, sigh, ghis, gosh, goth, and hogs — 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 ghostlier turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, get, got, her, his, hit, and hog. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghostlier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, go, he, hi, ho, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, ho, oh, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ghostlier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ghostlier 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.
ghostlier 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.
ghostlier is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ghostlier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ghostlier and regoliths, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ghostlier 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 ghostlier produce 494 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 28 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 135 five-letter words, 148 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.