Hidden inside hobos sit bohos and hobos, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bohos and hobos tie for the highest Scrabble score from hobos at 10 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hobos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hobos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hobos. For points, the strongest plays are bohos and hobos — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hobos produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boos, hobo, and shoo. For points, the strongest plays are boho, bosh, hobo, and hobs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hobos turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boo and oho. For points, the strongest play is hob — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hobos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — 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 hobos 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.
hobos 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 hobos carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for hobos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hobos is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hobos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bohos and hobos, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hobos 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 hobos produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.