Hidden inside heart sit earth, hater, heart and 1 other, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earth, hater, heart and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from heart at 8 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 five-letter words hiding in heart: three come from rearranging its letters, and heart itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth and heart. For points, the strongest plays are earth, hater, heart, and rathe — 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 heart produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hate, hear, heat, rate, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are eath, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, rath, rhea, tahr, and thae — 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 heart turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hae, hat, her, het, rah, and the — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heart. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
36 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in heart plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in heart and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
heart 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 ten senses for heart. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
heart is one of four five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing heart unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earth, hater, heart, and rathe, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from heart 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 heart produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.