Hidden inside potshot sit hotpots, hotspot, and potshot, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hotpots, hotspot, and potshot tie for the highest Scrabble score from potshot at 12 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in potshot: two come from rearranging its letters, and potshot itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hotpots, hotspot, and potshot, 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 potshot turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with photos. For points, the strongest plays are hotpot, photos, and pothos — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potshot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoops, photo, shoot, and tooth. For points, the strongest plays are hoops, photo, phots, poohs, 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 potshot produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoop, hops, host, oops, poos, post, and pots. For points, the strongest plays are hoop, hops, 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 potshot turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop, hot, oho, poo, pot, tho, and too. For points, the strongest plays are hop, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potshot. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are 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 potshot and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
potshot 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in potshot carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for potshot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
potshot is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing potshot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hotpots, hotspot, and potshot, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from potshot 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 potshot produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.