hollowest needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hollowest is the highest-scoring word from hollowest, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in hollowest — and it is hollowest itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hollowest produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hollows and howlets, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hollowest turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels, lowest, soothe, and towels. For points, the strongest plays are hollow, howlet, and wholes — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hollowest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hello, holes and hotel. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including whole, whose and howes.
Rearranging the letters in hollowest produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hell, hole and hose. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including show, hews and howe.
Unscrambling hollowest turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, how and let. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hollowest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew and he. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including eh, ew and he.
Swap a single tile in hollowest and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
hollowest 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.
hollowest is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hollowest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hollowest, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hollowest 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 hollowest produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.