Hidden inside gnomes sit genoms and gnomes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 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.
genoms and gnomes tie for the highest Scrabble score from gnomes at 9 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 gnomes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and gnomes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnomes. For points, the strongest plays are genoms and gnomes — each worth 9 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 gnomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnome. For points, the strongest plays are genom and gnome — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gnomes produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, goes, gone, nose, ones, some, and song. For points, the strongest plays are gems, megs, mogs, and smog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gnomes turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, men, one, and son. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gnomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in gnomes 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.
gnomes 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for gnomes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
gnomes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gnomes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are genoms and gnomes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gnomes 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 gnomes produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.