Unscramble HOSTA to get 52 words. HOSTA itself is a real word: 8 points on a Scrabble board, 7 in Words With Friends. It has 3 anagrams, each with the same 8 points: HOAST, OATHS and SHOAT. The best shorter words score 7: 12 of them, HOST, SHOT and HATS included. The 5 letters split into 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from HOSTA by length: 4 with 5 letters, 17 with 4, 19 with 3 and 12 with 2.
Trade one tile of HOSTA for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with HO · ending in TA · all 5-letter words
What HOSTA means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. HOSTA is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOSTA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 52) | 47 | 52 | 40 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: HAOS, AHS, HOS, SHO, SOH, TOSA and ATS. Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 5 of them: HOAST, HOAS, TASH, HOA and ST.
With one more tile, the letters of HOSTA spell the words below.