What HOSTILE Means
- adjective: characterized by enmity or ill will“a hostile nation”
- adjective: not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally“hostile naval and air forces”
- noun: troops belonging to the enemy's military forces“the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HOSTILE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 S1 T1 I1 L1 E1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of HOSTILE (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In HOSTILE
196 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.
6 letter words (15)
5 letter words (43)
4 letter words (67)
3 letter words (48)
2 letter words (23)
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