Hidden inside hoardings sit dragonish and hoardings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 462 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dragonish and hoardings tie for the highest Scrabble score from hoardings at 14 points. The top 10 of 462 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in hoardings: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hoardings 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 dragonish and hoardings, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoardings. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: hoarding, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hoardings produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adoring, dragons, and sharing. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including dashing, dishrag and hagdons.
Unscrambling hoardings turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daring, dragon and drains. For points, the strongest plays are hading and hagdon — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoardings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing, drags and drain. For points, 20 words tie at 9 points, including hands, hangs and hoard.
Rearranging the letters in hoardings produces 142 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and argh. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including argh, dish and gosh.
Unscrambling hoardings turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ago and aid. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including had, hid and hog.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoardings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ha and hi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in hoardings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hoardings 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.
hoardings 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 hoardings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
hoardings is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hoardings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dragonish and hoardings, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hoardings 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 hoardings produce 462 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 142 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.