hosiery needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hosiery is the highest-scoring word from hosiery, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hosiery — and it is hosiery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hosiery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, horse, shier, and shyer. For points, the strongest plays are horsy, hosey, and shyer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hosiery produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers and hire. For points, the strongest play is hoys — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hosiery turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hey and his. For points, the strongest plays are hey, hoy, shy, and yeh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hosiery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in hosiery plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hosiery 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.
hosiery 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 2-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 hosiery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hosiery is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hosiery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hosiery, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hosiery 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 hosiery produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.