Hidden inside oxhearts sit oxhearts and thoraxes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oxhearts and thoraxes tie for the highest Scrabble score from oxhearts at 18 points. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in oxhearts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oxhearts 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 oxhearts and thoraxes, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in oxhearts produces 4 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 exhorts, hoaxers, and oxheart, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oxhearts turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts and others. For points, the strongest plays are exhort, hoaxer, hoaxes, and thorax — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oxhearts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, extra, hates, hears, heart, heats, and horse. For points, the strongest plays are extra, oxers, oxter, raxes, retax, sexto, taxer, taxes, and texas — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in oxhearts produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears, east, eats, eras, hate, and hats. For points, the strongest play is hoax — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oxhearts turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ash, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest play is hex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oxhearts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ex, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and ox — each worth 9 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 oxhearts 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.
oxhearts 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 oxhearts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
oxhearts is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oxhearts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oxhearts and thoraxes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oxhearts 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 oxhearts produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.