lothsome needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 214 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lothsome is the highest-scoring word from lothsome, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 214 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in lothsome — and it is lothsome itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lothsome produces exactly one seven-letter word: smoothe. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lothsome turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels, molest, motels, smooth, and soothe. For points, the strongest plays are holmes, mohels, 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 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lothsome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, homes, hotel, loose, melts, meths, and moles. For points, the strongest plays are helms, holme, holms, homes, homos, meths, mohel, mohos, moths, 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 lothsome produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hole, home, hose, host, lets, lose, and lost. For points, the strongest plays are helm, hems, holm, home, homo, homs, mesh, meth, mhos, moho, mosh, moth, ohms, shmo, 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 lothsome turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, let, lot, met, moo, oho, and set. For points, the strongest plays are 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lothsome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, ho, me, oh, and sh. 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.
Swap a single tile in lothsome 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.
lothsome 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.
lothsome is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lothsome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lothsome, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lothsome 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 lothsome produce 214 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.