Hidden inside hootty is one standout: toothy, a six-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HTOTOY, HOOTYT or HOTOYT and you get the same 6 letters as HOOTTY: so the words from HOOTTY listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
HOOTTY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TOOTHY (adjective), having or showing prominent teeth, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
toothy is the highest-scoring word from hootty, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling hootty produces exactly one six-letter word: toothy. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hootty produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hoot and toyo, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hootty 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is toothy, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hootty 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 hootty produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.