Hidden inside holies sit helios, holies, and isohel, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
helios, holies, and isohel tie for the highest Scrabble score from holies at 9 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in holies: two come from rearranging its letters, and holies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are helios, holies, and isohel, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes. For points, the strongest plays are heils, helio, helos, hoise, holes, hosel, sheol, and shiel — 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 holies produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hole, hose, lies, lose, oils, shoe, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are elhi, heil, helo, hies, hoes, hole, hols, hose, and shoe — 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 holies turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, lie, oil, and she. For points, the strongest plays are hes, hie, his, hoe, hos, ohs, she, sho, and soh — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, oh, and sh. 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 holies 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.
holies 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 holies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for holies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
holies is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing holies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are helios, holies, and isohel, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from holies 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 holies produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.