Hidden inside housetops sit housetops and pothouses, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 276 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
housetops and pothouses tie for the highest Scrabble score from housetops at 14 points. The top 10 of 276 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in housetops: one comes from rearranging its letters, and housetops itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are housetops and pothouses, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housetops. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are housetop, pothoses, pothouse, and upshoots, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in housetops produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soothes. For points, the strongest plays are poshest, upshoot, and upshots — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling housetops turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with houses, photos and pushes. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including photos, pushes and ouphes.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housetops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoops, hopes and hoses. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including hoops, hopes and photo.
Rearranging the letters in housetops produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoop, hope and hops. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including hoop, hope and hops.
Unscrambling housetops turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop, hot and oho. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including hop, hep and hup.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housetops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and ho. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and ho.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in housetops plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in housetops 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.
housetops 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 one sense for housetops. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
housetops is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing housetops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are housetops and pothouses, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from housetops 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 housetops produce 276 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.