Hidden inside hart sit hart, rath, and tahr, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hart, rath, and tahr tie for the highest Scrabble score from hart at 7 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 four-letter words hiding in hart: two come from rearranging its letters, and hart itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hart, rath, and tahr, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hart turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, hat, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are hat and rah — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hart. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah and ha — 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 hart and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
hart 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for hart. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
hart is one of three four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hart unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hart, rath, and tahr, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hart 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 hart produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.