Hidden inside holidays sit holidays and hyaloids, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holidays and hyaloids tie for the highest Scrabble score from holidays at 15 points. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in holidays: one comes from rearranging its letters, and holidays itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holidays. For points, the strongest plays are holidays and hyaloids — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in holidays produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holiday. For points, the strongest plays are holiday, hyaloid, hyoidal, ladyish, and shadily — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling holidays turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hyoids, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holidays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with daily, dials, hails, holds, loads, sadly, and solid. For points, the strongest plays are dashy, dishy, hyoid, shady, and yodhs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in holidays produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, aids, also, days, dial, dish, and hail. For points, the strongest play is yodh — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling holidays turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ash, day, had, has, and hay. For points, the strongest plays are hay, hoy, shy, and yah — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holidays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah, as, ay, do, ha, and hi. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ay, ha, hi, ho, oh, oy, sh, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in holidays plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in holidays and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
holidays 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 three senses for holidays. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
holidays is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing holidays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holidays and hyaloids, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from holidays 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 holidays produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.