Hidden inside abohms sit abmhos and abohms, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abmhos and abohms tie for the highest Scrabble score from abohms at 13 points. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in abohms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abohms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abmhos and abohms, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abohms. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are abmho and abohm, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in abohms produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hams and mobs. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including hams, bash and bosh.
Unscrambling abohms turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, bah and bam. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including bah, ham and hob.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abohms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in abohms and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
abohms is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for abohms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
abohms is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abohms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abmhos and abohms, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abohms earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in abohms produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.