hostiles needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hostiles is the highest-scoring word from hostiles, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in hostiles — and it is hostiles itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hostiles produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holiest and hostile. For points, the strongest plays are eoliths, hitless, holiest, holists, hostels, hostile, isohels, and lithoes — 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 hostiles turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels and shiest. For points, the strongest plays are eolith, heists, helios, helots, hoises, hoists, holies, holist, hosels, hostel, hotels, isohel, lithos, sheols, shiels, shiest, shites, shotes, sloths, thesis, thiols, tholes, and toshes — 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 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hostiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, hoses, hosts, hotel, lists, loses, and shoes. For points, the strongest plays are ethos, heils, heist, helio, helos, helot, hests, hilts, hists, hoise, hoist, holes, holts, hosel, hoses, hosts, hotel, lithe, litho, sheol, shiel, shies, shist, shite, shits, shoes, shote, shots, slosh, sloth, soths, thiol, thole, and those — 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 hostiles produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, hole, hose, host, less, lets, and lies. For points, the strongest plays are elhi, eths, heil, helo, hest, hets, hies, hilt, hiss, hist, hits, hoes, hole, hols, holt, hose, hoss, host, hots, loth, sesh, shes, shit, shoe, shot, sith, sohs, soth, thio, this, 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 hostiles turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, hot, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hes, het, hie, his, hit, hoe, hos, hot, ohs, she, sho, soh, the, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hostiles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, it, and oh. 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 hostiles and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
hostiles 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 hostiles carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for hostiles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
hostiles is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hostiles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hostiles, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hostiles 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 hostiles produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.