What HOIST Means
- verb: raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help“hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car”
- verb: move from one place to another by lifting“They hoisted the patient onto the operating table”
- noun: lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HOIST is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 I1 S1 T1.
Words Made From The Letters In HOIST
40 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (10)
3 letter words (16)
2 letter words (14)
Longer Words Containing HOIST
HOIST appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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