Hidden inside earths sit earths, haters, and hearts, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
earths, haters, and hearts tie for the highest Scrabble score from earths at 9 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in earths: two come from rearranging its letters, and earths itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hearts. For points, the strongest plays are earths, haters, and hearts — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth, hates and hears. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including earth, hates and hears.
Rearranging the letters in earths produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, ears and east. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including hate, hats and hear.
Unscrambling earths turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ash. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including ash, has and hat.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in earths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including ah, eh and ha.
43 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in earths plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in earths 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.
earths 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 nine senses for earths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
earths is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing earths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are earths, haters, and hearts, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from earths 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 earths produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.