Hidden inside hosst sit hosts, shots, and soths, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
HOSST isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to HOSTS, SHOTS and SOTHS.
hosts, shots, and soths tie for the highest Scrabble score from hosst at 8 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hosst. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosts and shots. For points, the strongest plays are hosts, shots, and soths — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hosst produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host, shot, and toss. For points, the strongest plays are hoss, host, hots, shot, sohs, soth, and tosh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hosst. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hosst 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hosts, shots, and soths, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hosst 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 hosst produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.