Hidden inside hardest sit dearths, hardest, hardset and 4 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dearths, hardest, hardset and 3 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from hardest at 11 points. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 7 seven-letter words hiding in hardest: six come from rearranging its letters, and hardest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hardest and trashed. For points, the strongest plays are dearths, hardest, hardset, hatreds, sharted, threads, and trashed — 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 hardest turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaths, hearts, shared, stared, and trades. For points, the strongest plays are dasher, dearth, deaths, hasted, hatred, shader, shared, and thread — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hardest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, death, earth, hated, and hates. For points, the strongest plays are ashed, deash, death, hades, hadst, hards, hared, hated, heads, heard, herds, sadhe, shade, shard, sherd, and shred — 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 hardest produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, dear, ears, east, and eats. For points, the strongest plays are ahed, dahs, dash, edhs, hade, haed, hard, head, herd, shad, and shed — 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 hardest turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ash, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dah, edh, and had — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hardest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, 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 hardest 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.
hardest 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.
hardest is one of seven seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hardest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dearths, hardest, hardset, hatreds, sharted, threads, and trashed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hardest 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 hardest produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 7 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.