Hidden inside thos sit host, hots, shot and 2 others, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
THOS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to HOST, HOTS, SHOT, SOTH and TOSH.
host, hots, shot and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from thos at 7 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in thos produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host and shot. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including host, shot and hots.
26 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in thos plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in thos 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are host, hots, shot, soth, and tosh, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from thos 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 thos produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.