Hidden inside slaughter sit laughters and slaughter, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 552 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
laughters and slaughter tie for the highest Scrabble score from slaughter at 13 points. The top 10 of 552 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in slaughter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and slaughter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with slaughter. For points, the strongest plays are laughters and slaughter — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slaughter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with laughter. For points, the strongest plays are laughers and laughter — 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 slaughter produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gathers and largest. For points, the strongest plays are gathers and laugher — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slaughter turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alerts, alters, argues, gather, hearts, hugest, and laughs. For points, the strongest plays are aughts, garths, gasher, gather, gerahs, ghauts, gusher, hugest, and laughs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 158 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slaughter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter, argue, earth, gates, glues, and great. For points, the strongest plays are aught, garth, gerah, ghast, ghats, ghaut, gursh, huger, laugh, saugh, shrug, teugh, and thugs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in slaughter produces 184 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, argh, arts, last, late, legs, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are argh, augh, shag, sugh, gash, ghat, gush, hags, huge, hugs, thug, and ughs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling slaughter turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ash, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are hag, hug, and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in slaughter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in slaughter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in slaughter 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.
slaughter 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for slaughter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
slaughter is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing slaughter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are laughters and slaughter, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from slaughter 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 slaughter produce 552 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 158 five-letter words, 184 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.