Hidden inside loathers sit loathers and ratholes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 456 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loathers and ratholes tie for the highest Scrabble score from loathers at 11 points. The top 10 of 456 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in loathers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and loathers 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 loathers and ratholes, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in loathers produces 14 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 earshot, halters, harlots and 10 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling loathers turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters and hearts. For points, 30 words tie at 9 points, including hearts, hotels and others.
There are 132 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loathers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and altho. For points, 68 words tie at 8 points, including altho, earth and hates.
Rearranging the letters in loathers produces 152 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, arts and last. For points, 53 words tie at 7 points, including oath, rash and shoe.
Unscrambling loathers turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ash. For points, 23 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loathers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in loathers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in loathers 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.
loathers 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 loathers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for loathers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
loathers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loathers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are loathers and ratholes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loathers 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 loathers produce 456 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 132 five-letter words, 152 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.