Hidden inside loathen sit anethol and ethanol, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HETALON, ENTHOLA or HATOLEN and you get the same 7 letters as LOATHEN: so the words from LOATHEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
LOATHEN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ANETHOL and ETHANOL.
anethol and ethanol tie for the highest Scrabble score from loathen at 10 points. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in loathen produces 2 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 anethol and ethanol, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling loathen turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enhalo, hantle, loathe, and thenal, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loathen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alone, altho, and hotel. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including altho, hotel and halon.
Rearranging the letters in loathen produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hate, heal and heat. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including hate, heal and heat.
Unscrambling loathen turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including hat, hen and hot.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loathen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an and at. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in loathen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in loathen 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are anethol and ethanol, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loathen 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 loathen produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.