Hidden inside loughs sit ghouls, loughs, and slough, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ghouls, loughs, and slough tie for the highest Scrabble score from loughs at 10 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in loughs: two come from rearranging its letters, and loughs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ghouls, loughs, and slough, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loughs. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ghoul, lough, and sough, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in loughs produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hogs and hugs. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including gosh, hogs and hugs.
Unscrambling loughs turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hog, hug, log, and ugh. For points, the strongest plays are hog, hug, and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loughs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, ho and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in loughs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in loughs and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
loughs 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 2-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 loughs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
loughs is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loughs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ghouls, loughs, and slough, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loughs 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 loughs produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.