ghosts needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble STSOHG, GOSTSH or HOGSST and you get the same 6 letters as GHOSTS: so the words from GHOSTS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ghosts is the highest-scoring word from ghosts, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in ghosts — and it is ghosts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghosts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghost, hosts, and shots. For points, the strongest plays are ghost, goths, and shogs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ghosts produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hogs and host. For points, the strongest plays are gosh, goth, hogs, and shog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghosts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, ho and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ghosts and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ghosts 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 ghosts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
ghosts is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ghosts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ghosts, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ghosts 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 ghosts produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.