Unscramble HELOTS to get 98 words. HELOTS itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 9 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: HOSTEL, HOTELS and THOLES. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from HELOTS by length: 4 with 6 letters, 16 with 5, 34 with 4, 29 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Keep every letter of HELOTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with HE · ending in TS · all 6-letter words
HELOTS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
HELOTS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HELOTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 98) | 87 | 98 | 81 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
11 of the 98 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOTE, LOSH, SHET, EHS, LOTES, ELTS, LOTE, TOSE, ELT, LOS and ST. 6 of the 98 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HOS, SHO, SOH, EST, TES and TE.
Each word below uses all the letters of HELOTS and one more.