Hidden inside haunts sit haunts and unhats, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
haunts and unhats tie for the highest Scrabble score from haunts at 9 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in haunts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and haunts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with haunts. For points, the strongest plays are haunts and unhats — 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in haunts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, haunt, hunts, and tunas. For points, the strongest plays are hants, haunt, hunts, shunt, snath, and unhat — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in haunts produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, anus, aunt, hats, hunt, nuts, and shut. For points, the strongest plays are hant, hast, hats, haut, huns, hunt, huts, shat, shun, shut, than, thus, and tush — 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 haunts turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ash, has, hat, nah, nut, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, has, hat, hun, hut, nah, nth, and sha — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in haunts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, as, at, ha, sh, and uh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, sh, and uh — 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 haunts 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.
haunts 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 four senses for haunts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
haunts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing haunts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are haunts and unhats, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from haunts 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 haunts produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.