Hidden inside heartiest sit earthiest, heartiest, and hesitater, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 402 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earthiest, heartiest, and hesitater tie for the highest Scrabble score from heartiest at 12 points. The top 10 of 402 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in heartiest: two come from rearranging its letters, and heartiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are earthiest, heartiest, and hesitater, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heartiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with theaters. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including theaters, earthset and hearties.
Rearranging the letters in heartiest produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atheist, shatter and tastier. For points, 21 words tie at 10 points, including atheist, shatter and theater.
Unscrambling heartiest turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, easier and easter. For points, 29 words tie at 9 points, including either, hearts and theirs.
There are 100 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heartiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, erase and hairs. For points, 41 words tie at 8 points, including earth, hairs and hates.
Rearranging the letters in heartiest produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, arts and ears. For points, 38 words tie at 7 points, including hair, hate and hats.
Unscrambling heartiest turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, are and art. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heartiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in heartiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in heartiest and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
heartiest 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.
heartiest is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing heartiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earthiest, heartiest, and hesitater, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from heartiest 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 heartiest produce 402 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 100 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.