Hidden inside hotstar is one standout: throats, a seven-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HOTTRAS, RSTTOHA or HOSTTAR and you get the same 7 letters as HOTSTAR: so the words from HOTSTAR listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
HOTSTAR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to THROATS (verb, form of throat), to utter in a hoarse voice, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
throats is the highest-scoring word from hotstar, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling hotstar produces exactly one seven-letter word: throats. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hotstar turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with throat. For points, the strongest plays are strath, throat, torahs, and troths — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hotstar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oaths, roast and short. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including oaths, short and trash.
Rearranging the letters in hotstar produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, hats and host. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including hats, host and oath.
Unscrambling hotstar turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with art, ash and has. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hotstar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ha and ho.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in hotstar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hotstar 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is throats, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hotstar 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 hotstar produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.