hostage needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hostage is the highest-scoring word from hostage, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hostage — and it is hostage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hostage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gates, ghost, goats, hates, heats, oaths, and stage. For points, the strongest plays are ghast, ghats, ghost, goeth, and goths — 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 hostage produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, east, eats, egos, gate, gets, and goat. For points, the strongest plays are gash, ghat, gosh, goth, hags, hogs, shag, and shog — 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 hostage turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, ash, ate, eat, ego, and gas. For points, the strongest plays are hag and hog — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hostage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, go, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, 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 hostage 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.
hostage 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hostage carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for hostage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
hostage is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hostage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hostage, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hostage 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 hostage produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 24 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.