toothsome needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
toothsome is the highest-scoring word from toothsome, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in toothsome — and it is toothsome itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in toothsome produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is smoothe, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toothsome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, meths and moose. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including homes, meths and homos.
Rearranging the letters in toothsome produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with home, hose and host. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including home, meth and them.
Unscrambling toothsome turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, met and moo. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including hem, hom and meh.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toothsome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in toothsome and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
toothsome 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 toothsome carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for toothsome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
toothsome is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing toothsome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is toothsome, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from toothsome 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 toothsome produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.