Hidden inside than sit hant and than, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hant and than tie for the highest Scrabble score from than at 7 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in than: one comes from rearranging its letters, and than itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with than. For points, the strongest plays are hant and than — 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 than turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, hat, nah, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are hat, nah, and nth — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in than. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, at, and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ah and ha — 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 than and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
than 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 than carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for than. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
than is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing than unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hant and than, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from than 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 than produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.