Unscramble HOSTLESS and you have 144 words, HOSTLESS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from HOSTLESS split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 13 with 6, 32 with 5, 49 with 4, 31 with 3 and 15 with 2.
20 of 32 5-letter words you get when you unscramble HOSTLESS tie at 8 points; none scores more. HOTEL, SHOES and SHOTS will look familiar.
Of the 49 4-letter words from HOSTLESS, 23 score 7 points, the group's best. LESS, LOSS and LOST are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of HOSTLESS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with HO · ending in SS · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with HOSTELS, HOSTESS and SLOSHES (10 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: HOSTLESS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOSTLESS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 144) | 127 | 144 | 116 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 17 of them: HOSTLESS, SHETS, HOTE, LOSH, SHET, EHS, LESTS, LOTES, TOSES, ELTS, LOTE, SESS and 5 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: HOSSES, HOSS, SESH, SOHS, HOS, SHO, SOH, ESTS, EST, TES and TE.
These 2 words take every letter of HOSTLESS plus a single extra one.