Unscramble HOUTS and you have 42 words, HOUTS itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. HOUTS has 3 anagrams here, SHOUT, SOUTH and THOUS, scoring 8 like HOUTS itself. It has 5 letters, 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from HOUTS by length: 4 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 12 with 3 and 11 with 2.
Trade one tile of HOUTS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with HO · ending in TS · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; SHOUT, SOUTH and THOUS (8 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts HOUTS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOUTS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 42) | 35 | 42 | 32 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 7 of them: HOUTS, HOUT, HUSO, SOUT, OUS, OU and ST. Words With Friends* skips 3 of them: HOS, SHO and SOH.
Each word below uses all the letters of HOUTS and one more.