Unscramble HOLYTIDE and you have 188 words, HOLYTIDE itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is DIETHYL, 14 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from HOLYTIDE split into 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 5 with 6, 37 with 5, 60 with 4, 58 with 3 and 25 with 2.
The 5-letter words you get when you unscramble HOLYTIDE are led by HOYED and HYOID, 12 points each. HOTEL, YIELD and ETHYL are the familiar ones.
HYED and YODH are the top 4-letter words from HOLYTIDE, 11 points each. EDIT, HELD and HOLD will look familiar.
Of the 58 3-letter words in HOLYTIDE, 5 score 9 points, the group's best. OLD, HOT and LET are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of HOLYTIDE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with HO · ending in DE · all 8-letter words
The meaning of HOLYTIDE, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept HOLYTIDE, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOLYTIDE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 188) | 148 | 188 | 144 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
40 of the 188 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DIETHYL, HOYED, HYED, LYTHE, HYLE, LITHED, HOIED, HYE, LYTED, DHOL, HEID, HILD and 28 more. 4 of the 188 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DOH, DELT, OI and TE.
This word takes every letter of HOLYTIDE plus a single extra one.