Hidden inside those sit ethos, shote, and those, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ethos, shote, and those tie for the highest Scrabble score from those at 8 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in those: two come from rearranging its letters, and those itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with those. For points, the strongest plays are ethos, shote, and those — 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 those produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hose, host, shoe, shot, and toes. For points, the strongest plays are eths, hest, hets, hoes, hose, host, hots, shoe, 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 those turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, set, she, the, tho, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hes, het, hoe, hos, hot, ohs, she, sho, soh, the, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in those. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, sh, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, 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 those 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.
those 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.
those is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing those unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ethos, shote, and those, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from those 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 those produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.