Hidden inside unholiest sit unholiest and unhostile, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 461 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unholiest and unhostile tie for the highest Scrabble score from unholiest at 12 points. The top 10 of 461 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in unholiest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unholiest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are unholiest and unhostile, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unholiest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holstein, hotlines, neoliths, and outshine, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in unholiest produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holiest and hostile. For points, the strongest plays are eoliths, ethions, heinous, histone, holiest, hostile, hotline, lithoes, loutish, and neolith — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unholiest turns up 55 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honest, hotels, insult, listen, silent, and stolen. For points, the strongest plays are eolith, ethion, ethnos, helios, helots, holies, holist, honest, hostel, hotels, housel, hustle, isohel, lithos, sleuth, theins, thiols, tholes, tonish, and tushie — 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 120 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unholiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hints, holes, hotel, house, hunts, lines, and lions. For points, the strongest plays are ethos, heils, heist, helio, helos, helot, hents, hilts, hilus, hints, hoise, hoist, holes, holts, hones, hosel, hosen, hotel, house, hunts, lithe, litho, shent, sheol, shiel, shine, shite, shone, shote, shout, shuln, shunt, shute, sloth, south, thein, thens, thine, thins, thiol, thole, those, and thous — 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 unholiest produces 147 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lent, lets, lies, line, lion, list, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are loth, lush, nosh, shen, shin, shit, shoe, shot, shul, shun, shut, sinh, sith, soth, elhi, eths, heil, helo, hens, hent, hest, hets, hies, hilt, hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, hoes, hole, hols, holt, hone, hons, hose, host, hots, hues, huns, hunt, huts, then, thin, thio, this, thou, thus, tosh, and tush — 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 unholiest turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, his, hit, hot, its, let, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hen, hes, het, hie, hin, his, hit, hoe, hon, hos, hot, hue, hun, hut, noh, nth, 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 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unholiest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in unholiest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unholiest 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.
unholiest 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
unholiest is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unholiest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are unholiest and unhostile, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unholiest 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 unholiest produce 461 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 55 six-letter words, 120 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.