houses needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
houses is the highest-scoring word from houses, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in houses — and it is houses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in houses produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hose, shoe, sues, and uses. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including hose, shoe and hoes.
Unscrambling houses turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with she, sue, and use. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including she, hes and hoe.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in houses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in houses 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.
houses 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in houses carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
houses is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing houses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is houses, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from houses 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 houses produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.