Hidden inside hopes sit hopes and pheos, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hopes and pheos tie for the highest Scrabble score from hopes at 10 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hopes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hopes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hopes. For points, the strongest plays are hopes and pheos — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hopes produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hope, hops, hose, pose, shoe, and shop. For points, the strongest plays are heps, hope, hops, pehs, pheo, phos, posh, shop, and soph — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hopes turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop and she. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hop, peh, pho, and poh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hopes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, 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 hopes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
hopes 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 hopes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record nine senses for hopes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hopes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hopes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hopes and pheos, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hopes 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 hopes produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.