Hidden inside sloth sit holts and sloth, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holts and sloth tie for the highest Scrabble score from sloth at 8 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in sloth: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sloth itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holts and sloth, 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 sloth produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host, lost, lots, shot, and slot. For points, the strongest plays are hols, holt, host, hots, loth, shot, soth, and tosh — 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 sloth turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, lot, and tho. For points, the strongest plays are hos, hot, ohs, sho, soh, and tho — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sloth. 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 sloth and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
sloth 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 sloth carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for sloth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
sloth is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sloth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holts and sloth, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sloth 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 sloth produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.