Hidden inside hotting sit hotting and tonight, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hotting and tonight tie for the highest Scrabble score from hotting at 11 points. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hotting: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hotting itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tonight. For points, the strongest plays are hotting and tonight — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hotting produces exactly one six-letter word: toting. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hotting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with night, thing, and tight. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including night, thing and tight.
Rearranging the letters in hotting produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hint, into, and thin. For points, the strongest plays are goth, hong, and nigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hotting turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, hit and hog. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hotting. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi and ho. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in hotting plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hotting 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.
hotting 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.
hotting is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hotting unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hotting and tonight, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hotting 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 hotting produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.