Hidden inside gnomish sit gnomish and moshing, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gnomish and moshing tie for the highest Scrabble score from gnomish at 13 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in gnomish: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gnomish itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gnomish and moshing, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gnomish turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is homing, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gnomish. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hongi, hongs, nighs, ohing, and shogi, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gnomish produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hogs, sign, sing, and song. For points, the strongest plays are hims, homs, mhos, mosh, ohms, shim, and shmo — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gnomish turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his, hog, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are him, hom, mho, and ohm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gnomish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi, hm, ho, in, is, and no. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in gnomish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in gnomish and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gnomish 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 2-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 gnomish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
gnomish is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gnomish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gnomish and moshing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gnomish 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 gnomish produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.