holder needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 61 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holder is the highest-scoring word from holder, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 61 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in holder — and it is holder itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with older. For points, the strongest plays are dhole, holed, and horde — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in holder produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with held, hero, hold, hole, lord, rode, and role. For points, the strongest plays are held, herd, hoed, hold, and ohed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling holder turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, led, old, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are doh, edh, and hod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, he, ho, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — 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 holder 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.
holder 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 holder carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for holder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
holder is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing holder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is holder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from holder 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 holder produce 61 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.