Hidden inside kohls sit holks and kohls, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holks and kohls tie for the highest Scrabble score from kohls at 12 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in kohls: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kohls itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holks and kohls, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in kohls produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holk and kohl, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kohls turns up 6 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is kos, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kohls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, ok, sh, and so. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in kohls plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in kohls and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
kohls 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in kohls carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for kohls. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
kohls is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kohls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holks and kohls, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kohls 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 kohls produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.