Unscramble HOUGHING to get 62 words. HOUGHING itself is a real word: 16 points on a Scrabble board, 18 in Words With Friends. HOHING is the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
H43O1U12G23H43I1N12G23
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from HOUGHING by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 6 with 5, 13 with 4, 24 with 3 and 16 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of HOUGHING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with HO · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by HIGH (11 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts HOUGHING, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOUGHING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 62) | 41 | 62 | 35 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
21 of the 62 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOUGHING, HOHING, HOUGH, HOGGIN, HOGH, HOH, HOING, HING, OGGIN, GING, GUNG, HOI and 9 more. 6 of the 62 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: HONGI, IGG, NUG, GI, UNI and OI.