loathes needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 229 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loathes is the highest-scoring word from loathes, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 229 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in loathes — and it is loathes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling loathes turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels. For points, the strongest plays are halest, haloes, haoles, haslet, helots, hostel, hotels, lathes, loathe, lotahs, shelta, and tholes — 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 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loathes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altho, hates, heals, heats, holes, hotel, and least. For points, the strongest plays are altho, ethos, haets, hales, halos, halts, haole, haste, hates, heals, heats, helos, helot, holes, holts, hosel, hosta, hotel, lathe, laths, leash, loath, lotah, oaths, selah, shale, shalt, sheal, sheol, shoal, shoat, shote, sloth, thole, and those — 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 loathes produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, east, eats, hate, hats, heal, and heat. For points, the strongest plays are eath, eths, haes, haet, hale, halo, halt, haos, hast, hate, hats, heal, heat, helo, hest, hets, hoes, hole, hols, holt, hose, host, hots, lahs, lash, lath, loth, oath, shat, shea, shoe, shot, soth, thae, and tosh — 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 loathes turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ate, eat, has, hat, hot, and let. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, eth, hae, hao, has, hat, hes, het, hoe, hos, hot, lah, ohs, sha, she, sho, soh, the, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loathes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and ho. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in loathes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in loathes 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.
loathes 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 loathes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for loathes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
loathes is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loathes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is loathes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from loathes 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 loathes produce 229 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.