Hidden inside potholes sit posthole and potholes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
posthole and potholes tie for the highest Scrabble score from potholes at 13 points. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in potholes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and potholes 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 posthole and potholes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling potholes produces exactly one seven-letter word: pothole. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling potholes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels, photos, and soothe. For points, the strongest plays are photos, pothos, 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 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potholes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with helps, holes, hoops, hopes, hotel, loose, and photo. For points, the strongest plays are helps, hoops, hopes, pheos, photo, phots, poohs, shlep, 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 potholes produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with help, hole, hoop, hope, hops, hose, and host. For points, the strongest plays are help, heps, holp, hoop, hope, hops, pehs, pheo, phos, phot, pooh, posh, shop, soph, 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 potholes turns up 51 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 potholes. 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.
Swap a single tile in potholes 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.
potholes 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 potholes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
potholes is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing potholes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are posthole and potholes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from potholes 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 potholes produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.