Hidden inside whoes sit howes and whose, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
WHOES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to HOWES and WHOSE.
howes and whose tie for the highest Scrabble score from whoes at 11 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with whose. For points, the strongest plays are howes and whose — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in whoes produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hose, owes, shoe, and show. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including show, hews and howe.
Unscrambling whoes turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with how, owe and sew. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in whoes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are howes and whose, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from whoes 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 whoes produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.