Hidden inside holist sit holist, lithos, and thiols, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holist, lithos, and thiols tie for the highest Scrabble score from holist at 9 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in holist: two come from rearranging its letters, and holist 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 holist, lithos, and thiols, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holist. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hilts, hoist, holts, litho, sloth, and thiol, 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 holist produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, host, list, lost, lots, oils, and shot. For points, the strongest plays are hilt, hist, hits, hols, holt, host, hots, loth, 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 holist turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, hot, its, lit, lot, and oil. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holist. 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 holist 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.
holist 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 holist carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
holist is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing holist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holist, lithos, and thiols, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from holist 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 holist produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.