Hidden inside hordes sit dehors, hordes, horsed and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 104 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dehors, hordes, horsed and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from hordes at 10 points. The top 10 of 104 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in hordes: four come from rearranging its letters, and hordes 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 dehors, hordes, horsed, reshod, and shored, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hordes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horse and shred. For points, the strongest plays are herds, horde, hosed, sherd, shoed, and shred — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hordes produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, hero, hers, hose, rode, rods, and rose. For points, the strongest plays are dohs, dosh, edhs, herd, hods, hoed, ohed, shed, and shod — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hordes turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, red, rod, and she. For points, the strongest plays are doh, edh, and hod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hordes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, he, ho, oh, or, and sh. 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 hordes 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.
hordes 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 hordes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hordes is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hordes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dehors, hordes, horsed, reshod, and shored, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hordes 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 hordes produce 104 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.