Unscramble HOSTAGE to get 177 words. HOSTAGE itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. SEAHOG is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of HOSTAGE in one turn: 61 in Scrabble (11 + 50), 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
ESTGOHA unscrambles to HOSTAGE: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for hogaste, goatesh, gehosta, hosetag, aeghost, theagos, goestha, gosheat, hosgate or shoegat? They use the same letters as HOSTAGE, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from HOSTAGE by length: 1 with 7 letters, 2 with 6, 32 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 22 with 2.
Among 32 5-letter words in HOSTAGE, the top score is 9, reached by 8. STAGE, GHOST and GATES are the familiar ones.
60 4-letter words from HOSTAGE; 9 of them share the top score of 8. HOST, GETS and GOES are everyday picks.
The 3-letter words you get when you unscramble HOSTAGE are led by HAG and HOG, 7 points each. HAS, GET and SET are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of HOSTAGE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with HO · ending in GE · all 7-letter words
HOSTAGE first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
HOSTAGE works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOSTAGE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 177) | 151 | 177 | 136 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
26 of the 177 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SEAHOG, GATHS, GHEST, GOSHT, ASHET, GATH, HEAST, HOAST, GOATSE, HOAS, HOTE, SHET and 14 more. 15 of the 177 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: GOETH, GOTHS, GOTH, HAOS, AHS, GOEST, HOS, SHO, SOH, TOEAS, AGS, GOS and 3 more.
These 2 words take every letter of HOSTAGE plus a single extra one.