Hidden inside ghostwrite sit ghostwrite and growthiest, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 522 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ghostwrite and growthiest tie for the highest Scrabble score from ghostwrite at 17 points. The top 10 of 522 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in ghostwrite: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ghostwrite itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ghostwrite and growthiest, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ghostwrite produces exactly one nine-letter word: worthiest. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghostwrite. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are whitters and worthies, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ghostwrite produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with growths, hotties, tighter, weights, and whitest. For points, the strongest plays are growths, weights, and wrights — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ghostwrite turns up 77 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with growth, hotter, hottie, orgies, others, rights, and shower. For points, the strongest plays are growth, weighs, weight, wights, and wright — 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 139 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghostwrite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with their, those, threw, throw, tiger, tight, and tires. For points, the strongest plays are weigh, whigs, and wight — 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 ghostwrite produces 151 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, gets, goes, gosh, grew, grow, and hero. For points, the strongest play is whig — 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 ghostwrite turns up 82 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 hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ghostwrite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, go, he, hi, ho, and is. For points, the strongest plays are eh, ew, he, hi, ho, oh, ow, sh, we, and wo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ghostwrite plus one additional letter.
ghostwrite 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 ghostwrite carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ghostwrite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
ghostwrite is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ghostwrite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ghostwrite and growthiest, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ghostwrite 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 ghostwrite produce 522 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 77 six-letter words, 139 five-letter words, 151 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.