hoist needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hoist is the highest-scoring word from hoist, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in hoist — and it is hoist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hoist produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, host, shot, and this. For points, the strongest plays are hist, hits, host, hots, shit, shot, sith, soth, thio, this, and tosh — 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 hoist turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, hot, its, sit, and tho. For points, the strongest plays are his, hit, hos, hot, ohs, sho, soh, and tho — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho, is, it, oh, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, 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 hoist and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
hoist 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 four senses for hoist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
hoist is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hoist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hoist, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hoist 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 hoist produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 11 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.