Hidden inside hurtles sit hurtles and hustler, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hurtles and hustler tie for the highest Scrabble score from hurtles at 10 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hurtles: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hurtles itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hurtles and hustler, 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 hurtles turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with result. For points, the strongest plays are hurtle, hustle, lusher, sleuth, and thurls — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hurtles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hurts, lures, and rules. For points, the strongest plays are herls, hurls, hurst, hurts, lehrs, ruths, shute, thurl, and usher — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hurtles produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hurt, lets, lure, rest, rule, and rush. For points, the strongest plays are eths, herl, hers, hest, hets, hues, hurl, hurt, huts, lehr, lush, resh, rhus, rush, ruth, shul, shut, thru, thus, and tush — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hurtles turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, let, set, she, sue, the, and use. For points, the strongest plays are eth, her, hes, het, hue, hut, she, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hurtles. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, sh, uh, and us. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, sh, and uh — 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 hurtles 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.
hurtles 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 three senses for hurtles. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hurtles is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hurtles unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hurtles and hustler, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hurtles 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 hurtles produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.