Unscramble HOTS to get 19 words. HOTS itself is a real word: 7 points on a Scrabble board, 6 in Words With Friends. HOTS has 4 anagrams here, HOST, SHOT, SOTH and TOSH, scoring 7 like HOTS itself. Among the shorter answers, 6 reach 6 points, HOT, THO and HOS among them. 4 letters: 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from HOTS split into 5 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of HOTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with HO · ending in TS · all 4-letter words
HOTS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
HOTS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 19) | 18 | 19 | 15 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Words With Friends*: HOS, SHO and SOH, 3 in all. Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ST.
These 12 words take every letter of HOTS plus a single extra one.