hostility needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hostility is the highest-scoring word from hostility, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in hostility — and it is hostility itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hostility produces exactly one seven-letter word: thistly. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hostility turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hostly, shitty, stithy, and toyish, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hostility. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hotly, hotty, and shily, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hostility produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, holy, host, list, lost, lots, and oils. For points, the strongest plays are holy and hoys — 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 hostility turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, hot, its, lit, lot, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are hoy, shy, and thy — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hostility. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, ho, is, it, oh, oy, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, oy, sh, and yo — 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 hostility and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
hostility 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 four senses for hostility. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
hostility is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hostility unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hostility, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hostility 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 hostility produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.