goliath needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 96 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
goliath is the highest-scoring word from goliath, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 96 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in goliath — and it is goliath itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goliath. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altho and light. For points, the strongest plays are laigh and light — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in goliath produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goal, goat and hail. For points, the strongest plays are ghat and goth — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling goliath turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, gal and got. For points, the strongest plays are ghi, hag, and hog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goliath. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at and go. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ha and hi.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in goliath plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in goliath and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
goliath is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for goliath. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
goliath is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing goliath unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is goliath, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from goliath 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 goliath produce 96 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.