postholes 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, 304 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
postholes is the highest-scoring word from postholes, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 304 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in postholes — and it is postholes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postholes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hoopless, posthole, potholes, and pothoses, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in postholes produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loosest, soothes, and topless. For points, the strongest plays are poshest and pothole — 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 postholes turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels, photos, shoots, soothe, and stools. For points, the strongest plays are photos, pothos, shleps, splosh, thesps, and tophes — 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 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postholes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with helps, holes, hoops, hopes, hoses, hosts, and hotel. For points, the strongest plays are helps, hoops, hopes, pheos, photo, phots, poohs, shlep, shops, sophs, thesp, tophe, and tophs — 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 postholes produces 101 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lets, lose, loss, lost, lots, and oops. For points, the strongest plays are pehs, pheo, phos, phot, pooh, posh, shop, soph, help, heps, holp, hoop, hope, hops, and toph — 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 postholes turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop, hot, let, lot, oho, pet, and poo. For points, the strongest plays are hep, hop, peh, pho, pht, and poh — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in postholes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, sh, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are eh, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in postholes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in postholes 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.
postholes 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 one sense for postholes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
postholes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing postholes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is postholes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from postholes 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 postholes produce 304 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 101 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.