Hidden inside toeholds sit toeholds and toolshed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 215 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
toeholds and toolshed tie for the highest Scrabble score from toeholds at 12 points. The top 10 of 215 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in toeholds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and toeholds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are toeholds and toolshed, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in toeholds produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with soothed. For points, the strongest plays are shooled, soothed, and toehold — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling toeholds turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosted, hotels, oldest, and soothe. For points, the strongest plays are dholes, hooted, hosted, shooed, and tholed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toeholds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holds, holes, hoods, hotel, loose, shoot, and stole. For points, the strongest plays are dhole, doeth, holds, holed, hoods, hosed, oohed, and shoed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in toeholds produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots, held, hold, hole, hood, and hose. For points, the strongest plays are dohs, dosh, doth, edhs, held, hods, hoed, hold, hood, ohed, shed, and shod — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling toeholds turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, hot, led, let, lot, oho, and old. For points, the strongest plays are doh, edh, and hod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toeholds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh, he, ho, oh, sh, and so. 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 toeholds and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
toeholds 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 toeholds carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for toeholds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
toeholds is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing toeholds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are toeholds and toolshed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from toeholds 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 toeholds produce 215 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.