Hidden inside hearts sit earths, haters, and hearts, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earths, haters, and hearts tie for the highest Scrabble score from hearts at 9 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in hearts: two come from rearranging its letters, and hearts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts. For points, the strongest plays are earths, haters, and hearts — 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, hates, hears, heart, heats, rates, and share. For points, the strongest plays are earth, haets, hares, harts, haste, hater, hates, hears, heart, heats, rathe, rheas, share, shart, shear, tahrs, and trash — 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 hearts produces 50 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 eath, eths, haes, haet, hare, hart, hast, hate, hats, hear, heat, hers, hest, hets, rash, rath, resh, rhea, shat, shea, 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 hearts turns up 38 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 ahs, ash, eth, hae, has, hat, her, hes, het, rah, sha, she, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearts. 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.
43 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in hearts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hearts 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.
hearts 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 one sense for hearts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
hearts is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hearts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earths, haters, and hearts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hearts 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 hearts produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.