Hidden inside hosiers sit horsies and hosiers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
horsies and hosiers tie for the highest Scrabble score from hosiers at 10 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hosiers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hosiers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are horsies and hosiers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hosiers turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horses. For points, the strongest plays are hisser, hoises, horses, horsie, hosers, hosier, roshis, shiers, shires, shoers, and shores — 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hosiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, horse, hoses, rises, roses, shier, and shoes. For points, the strongest plays are heirs, heros, hires, hoers, hoise, horse, hoser, hoses, roshi, shero, shier, shies, shire, shoer, shoes, shore, and shris — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hosiers produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers, hire, hose, rise, rose, and shoe. For points, the strongest plays are heir, hero, hers, hies, hire, hiss, hoer, hoes, hose, hoss, resh, rhos, sesh, shes, shoe, shri, and sohs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hosiers turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, she, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are her, hes, hie, his, hoe, hos, ohs, rho, she, sho, and soh — each worth 6 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 hosiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, oh, and or. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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 hosiers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
hosiers 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 one sense for hosiers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hosiers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hosiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are horsies and hosiers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hosiers 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 hosiers produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.