Hidden inside tother sit hotter and tother, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hotter and tother tie for the highest Scrabble score from tother at 9 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tother: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tother itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotter. For points, the strongest plays are hotter and tother — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tother. If a familiar word is all you need, start with other. For points, the strongest plays are other, throe, and troth — 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 tother produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero and tore. For points, the strongest plays are hero, hoer, teth, and thro — 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 tother turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hot, the, tho, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are eth, her, het, hoe, hot, rho, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tother. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — 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 tother and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tother 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.
tother is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tother unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hotter and tother, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tother 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 tother produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.