Unscramble HOSTELS and you have 135 words, HOSTELS itself among them: it scores 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. HOSTELS as a single 7-tile play makes 60 in Scrabble, 10 plus the 50 bonus, and 45 in Words With Friends (10 + 35).
Looking for holesst, stolehs, hostsle, thosels, holests, thossel, hostles, sholets, shotsle or slotshe? They use the same letters as HOSTELS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from HOSTELS split into 1 with 7 letters, 10 with 6, 31 with 5, 47 with 4, 31 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Of the 31 5-letter words in HOSTELS, 20 score 8 points, the group's best. HOTEL, SHOES and SHOTS are the ones most people know.
23 of 47 4-letter words from HOSTELS tie at 7 points; none scores more. LESS, LOSS and LOST will look familiar.
Keep every letter of HOSTELS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with HO · ending in LS · all 7-letter words
What HOSTELS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. HOSTELS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOSTELS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 135) | 121 | 135 | 111 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SHETS, HOTE, LOSH, SHET, EHS, LESTS, LOTES, TOSES, ELTS, LOTE, TOSE, ELT and 2 more, 14 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: HOSS, SESH, SOHS, HOS, SHO, SOH, ESTS, EST, TES and TE, 10 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of HOSTELS and one more.