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).
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.