Hidden inside heists sit heists, shiest, shites and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
heists, shiest, shites and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from heists at 9 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in heists: three come from rearranging its letters, and heists itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shiest. For points, the strongest plays are heists, shiest, shites, and thesis — 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sites. For points, the strongest plays are heist, hests, hists, shies, shist, shite, and shits — 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 heists produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, sets, site, sits, this, and ties. For points, the strongest plays are eths, hest, hets, hies, hiss, hist, hits, sesh, shes, shit, sith, and this — 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 heists turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, its, set, she, sit, and the. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hes, het, hie, his, hit, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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 heists 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.
heists 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 three senses for heists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
heists is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing heists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are heists, shiest, shites, and thesis, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from heists 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 heists produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.