Hidden inside aughts sit aughts and ghauts, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aughts and ghauts tie for the highest Scrabble score from aughts at 10 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in aughts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and aughts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aughts and ghauts, 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aughts. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aught, ghast, ghats, ghaut, saugh, and thugs, 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 aughts produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guts, hats, hugs, shut, tags, and thus. For points, the strongest plays are augh, gash, ghat, gush, hags, hugs, shag, sugh, thug, and ughs — 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 aughts turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, gas, gut, has, hat, hug, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are hag, hug, and ugh — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in aughts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, at, ha, sh, uh, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ah, ha, 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.
Swap a single tile in aughts 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.
aughts 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for aughts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
aughts is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing aughts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aughts and ghauts, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from aughts 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 aughts produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.