8-Letter Words Starting With HYST
- 2 words
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Popular 8-Letter Words Starting With HYST
The most familiar words on this list, with their Scrabble scores.
All 8-Letter Words Starting With HYST 2 words
How common is HYST at the start of eight-letter words?
Our combined English word list has 2 eight-letter words that start with HYST. They average 15 points and the best is HYSTERIC (16 points).
- Total words
- 2
- Average Scrabble score
- 15
- out of 16 max
- Everyday words
- 100%
- common in ordinary English
- Most common ending
- A
- 50% of words
Most common last letters
- a 50%
- c 50%
Top vowel pairs
- ia50%
Share of words where these two vowels sit side by side.
Highest-scoring eight-letter word that starts with HYST
h 4y 4s 1t 1e 1r 1i 1c 3
H 4 + Y 4 + S 1 + T 1 + E 1 + R 1 + I 1 + C 3 = 16 points
- Double word
- 32 pts
- Triple word
- 48 pts
Face value of the tiles, then the whole word on a double- or triple-word square (letter bonuses and bingos not included).
hysteric
- nouna person suffering from hysteria
- adjectivecharacterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria“during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein”
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How many eight-letter words that start with HYST are there?
There are 2 eight-letter words that start with HYST in our combined English word list. Other dictionaries give different totals, so switch dictionary at the top of the list to compare.
What is the highest-scoring eight-letter word that starts with HYST?
HYSTERIC is worth 16 points in Scrabble before any bonus squares. Other strong options are HYSTERIA (14).