Hidden inside hoister sit heriots, hoister, and shortie, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
heriots, hoister, and shortie tie for the highest Scrabble score from hoister at 10 points. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in hoister: two come from rearranging its letters, and hoister itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are heriots, hoister, and shortie, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hoister turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with others and theirs. For points, the strongest plays are heriot, horsie, horste, hosier, others, reshot, theirs, and throes — 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 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, horse, other, riots, shier, shirt, and short. For points, the strongest plays are ethos, heirs, heist, heros, hires, hoers, hoise, hoist, horse, horst, hoser, ither, other, roshi, shero, shier, shire, shirt, shite, shoer, shore, short, shote, their, those, and throe — 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 hoister produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers, hire, hits, hose, host, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are eths, heir, hero, hers, hest, hets, hies, hire, hist, hits, hoer, hoes, hose, host, hots, resh, rhos, shit, shoe, shot, shri, sith, soth, thio, thir, this, thro, 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 hoister turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, hit, hot, its, set, and she. For points, the strongest plays are eth, her, hes, het, hie, his, hit, hoe, hos, hot, ohs, rho, she, sho, soh, the, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoister. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, it, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, 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 hoister and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
hoister 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 hoister. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hoister is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hoister unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are heriots, hoister, and shortie, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hoister 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 hoister produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.