Hidden inside hosta sit hosta, oaths, and shoat, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hosta, oaths, and shoat tie for the highest Scrabble score from hosta at 8 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in hosta: two come from rearranging its letters, and hosta itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oaths. For points, the strongest plays are hosta, oaths, and shoat — 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 hosta produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hats, host, oath, and shot. For points, the strongest plays are haos, hast, hats, host, hots, oath, shat, shot, soth, and tosh — 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 hosta turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has, hat, hot, sat, and tho. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, hao, has, hat, hos, hot, ohs, sha, sho, soh, and tho — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hosta. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, ha, ho, oh, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, 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 hosta 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.
hosta 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 hosta. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
hosta is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hosta unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hosta, oaths, and shoat, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hosta 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 hosta produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.