Hidden inside ghost sit ghost and goths, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble GOTSH, SHOGT or HOSGT and you get the same 5 letters as GHOST: so the words from GHOST listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ghost and goths tie for the highest Scrabble score from ghost at 9 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in ghost: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ghost itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghost. For points, the strongest plays are ghost and goths — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ghost produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hogs, host, and shot. For points, the strongest plays are gosh, goth, hogs, and shog — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ghost 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.
ghost 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 ghost carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for ghost. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ghost is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ghost unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ghost and goths, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ghost 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 ghost produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.