Hidden inside hostile sit eoliths, holiest, hostile and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
eoliths, holiest, hostile and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from hostile at 10 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in hostile: three come from rearranging its letters, and hostile itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holiest and hostile. For points, the strongest plays are eoliths, holiest, hostile, and lithoes — 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 hostile turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels. For points, the strongest plays are eolith, helios, helots, holies, holist, hostel, hotels, isohel, lithos, thiols, and tholes — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hostile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, hotel, stole, and those. For points, the strongest plays are ethos, heils, heist, helio, helos, helot, hilts, hoise, hoist, holes, holts, hosel, hotel, lithe, litho, sheol, shiel, shite, shote, sloth, thiol, thole, 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 hostile produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, hole, hose, host, lets, lies, and list. For points, the strongest plays are elhi, eths, heil, helo, hest, hets, hies, hilt, hist, hits, hoes, hole, hols, holt, hose, host, hots, loth, shit, shoe, shot, sith, soth, thio, this, 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 hostile turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with his, hit, hot, its, let, lie, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are eth, hes, het, hie, his, hit, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hostile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, it, and oh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, 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 hostile and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
hostile 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 hostile carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for hostile. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hostile is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hostile unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are eoliths, holiest, hostile, and lithoes, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hostile 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 hostile produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.