73 words come out when you unscramble ROOTHOLD, starting with ROOTHOLD itself: 12 in Scrabble, 12 in Words With Friends. HOTROD is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
R1O1O1T1H43O1L12D2
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ROOTHOLD by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 6, 6 with 5, 29 with 4, 27 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 7 letters.
Keep every letter of ROOTHOLD but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with RO · ending in LD · all 8-letter words
The meaning of ROOTHOLD, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
ROOTHOLD 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROOTHOLD itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 73) | 59 | 73 | 53 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOORD, DHOL, HOOR, TOHO, LOORD, ROTOLO, DOOL, DORT, DOO, LOD, LOOR, ORD and 2 more, 14 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DOH, HOLO, HOO, LOTO, LOR and ROO, 6 in all.
This word takes every letter of ROOTHOLD plus a single extra one.