Hidden inside humorist sit humorist and thoriums, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
humorist and thoriums tie for the highest Scrabble score from humorist at 13 points. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in humorist: one comes from rearranging its letters, and humorist itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are humorist and thoriums, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in humorist produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rimshot and thorium, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling humorist turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with humors, mouths, and tumors. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including humors, mouths and mirths.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in humorist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hours, humor and hurts. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including humor, mouth and mirth.
Rearranging the letters in humorist produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, host and hour. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including hims, homs and hums.
Unscrambling humorist turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his and hit. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including him, hom and hum.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in humorist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm and ho. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in humorist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in humorist 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.
humorist 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 humorist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
humorist is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing humorist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are humorist and thoriums, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from humorist 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 humorist produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.