hearths needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 149 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hearths is the highest-scoring word from hearths, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 149 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hearths — and it is hearths itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hearths turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts. For points, the strongest plays are hearth, heaths, rehash, sheath, thrash, and thresh — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, harsh, hates, hears, heart, heats, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are harsh, heath, and heths — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hearths produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, hate, and hats. For points, the strongest plays are hahs, hash, hath, hehs, heth, and shah — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hearths turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ash, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are hah, heh, and shh — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. 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 hearths 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.
hearths 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 2-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 hearths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hearths is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hearths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hearths, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hearths 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 hearths produce 149 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.