Hidden inside whores sit reshow, shower, and whores, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reshow, shower, and whores tie for the highest Scrabble score from whores at 12 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in whores: two come from rearranging its letters, and whores itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shower. For points, the strongest plays are reshow, shower, and whores — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whores. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horse, swore, whose, and worse. For points, the strongest plays are howes, shrew, whore, and whose — 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 whores produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers, hose, owes, rose, rows, and shoe. For points, the strongest plays are hews, howe, hows, shew, and show — 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 whores turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, how, owe, row, sew, she, and who. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in whores. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, he, ho, oh, or, and ow. For points, the strongest plays are eh, ew, he, ho, oh, ow, sh, we, and wo — 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 whores 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.
whores 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 four senses for whores. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
whores is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing whores unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reshow, shower, and whores, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from whores 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 whores produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.