Hidden inside loath sit altho, loath, and lotah, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
altho, loath, and lotah tie for the highest Scrabble score from loath at 8 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in loath: two come from rearranging its letters, and loath itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altho. For points, the strongest plays are altho, loath, and lotah — 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 loath produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oath. For points, the strongest plays are halo, halt, holt, lath, loth, and oath — 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 loath turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hat, hot, lot, and tho. For points, the strongest plays are hao, hat, hot, lah, and tho — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loath. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, ha, ho, oh, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, ho, and oh — 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 loath 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.
loath 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 loath carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for loath. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
loath is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loath unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are altho, loath, and lotah, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loath 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 loath produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.