Hidden inside hitters sit hitters, shitter, thetris and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hitters, shitter, thetris and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from hitters at 10 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in hitters: three come from rearranging its letters, and hitters 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 hitters, shitter, thetris, and tithers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hitters turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sitter and theirs. For points, the strongest plays are hitter, theirs, theist, thetri, thirst, tither, and tithes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hitters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hires, shier, shirt, their, tires, and tries. For points, the strongest plays are heirs, heist, hires, ither, shier, shire, shirt, shite, teths, their, and tithe — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hitters produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hers, hire, hits, rest, rise, site, and stir. For points, the strongest plays are eths, heir, hers, hest, hets, hies, hire, hist, hits, resh, shit, shri, sith, teth, thir, and this — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hitters turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, his, hit, its, set, she, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are eth, her, hes, het, hie, his, hit, she, and the — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hitters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, is, it, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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 hitters 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.
hitters 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 hitters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hitters is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hitters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hitters, shitter, thetris, and tithers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hitters 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 hitters produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.