Hidden inside the sit eth, het, and the, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eth, het, and the tie for the highest Scrabble score from the at 6 points. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in the: two come from rearranging its letters, and the itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with the. For points, the strongest plays are eth, het, 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in the. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: eh and he, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in the and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
the 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 the. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
the is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing the unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eth, het, and the, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from the 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 the produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.