loathsome needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 449 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
loathsome is the highest-scoring word from loathsome, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 449 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in loathsome — and it is loathsome itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling loathsome produces exactly one eight-letter word: lothsome. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in loathsome produces 6 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 hamlets, moolahs, and smoothe, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling loathsome turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with almost, hotels, lamest, metals, molest, motels, and smooth. For points, the strongest plays are almehs, hamlet, holmes, mahoes, mohels, moolah, shalom, sholom, and smooth — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loathsome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altho, atoms, hates, heals, heats, holes, and homes. For points, the strongest plays are almeh, haems, halms, hames, helms, hemal, holme, holms, homas, homes, homos, mahoe, maths, meths, mohel, mohos, moths, shame, and shmoe — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in loathsome produces 166 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, also, atom, lame, last, late, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, mash, math, mesh, meth, mhos, moho, mosh, moth, ohms, sham, shmo, haem, halm, hame, hams, helm, hems, holm, homa, home, homo, homs, and them — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling loathsome turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ate, eat, ham, has, hat, and hot. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, hom, meh, mho, and ohm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loathsome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in loathsome plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in loathsome and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
loathsome 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for loathsome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
loathsome is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loathsome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is loathsome, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from loathsome 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 loathsome produce 449 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 166 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.