Unscramble HOASTS to get 74 words. HOASTS itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: HOSTAS and SHOATS. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
H43O1A1S1T1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from HOASTS by length: 3 with 6 letters, 13 with 5, 25 with 4, 21 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Keep every letter of HOASTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with HO · ending in TS · all 6-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with HOSTAS and SHOATS (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
HOASTS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOASTS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 74) | 66 | 74 | 55 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Words With Friends*: HAOS, HOSS, SOHS, AHS, HOS, SHO, SOH, TASSO, TOSAS, TOSA and ATS, 11 in all. Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOASTS, HOAST, HASS, HOAS, TASH, HOA, ASSOT and ST, 8 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of HOASTS spell the words below.