hearth needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 55 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hearth is the highest-scoring word from hearth, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 55 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in hearth — and it is hearth itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earth and heart. For points, the strongest play is heath — 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 hearth produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hate, hear, heat, rate, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are hath and heth — 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 hearth turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and hah. For points, the strongest plays are hah and heh — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearth. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, at, eh, ha, and he. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — 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 hearth 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.
hearth 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for hearth. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
hearth is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hearth unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hearth, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hearth 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 hearth produce 55 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.