heirloom needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
heirloom is the highest-scoring word from heirloom, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in heirloom — and it is heirloom itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling heirloom turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holier. For points, the strongest play is homier — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heirloom. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holme, homer, homie, and mohel, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in heirloom produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hire, hole, home, limo, mile, and mole. For points, the strongest plays are helm, herm, holm, home, homo, and moho — 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 heirloom turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, him, lie, moo, oho, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are hem, him, hom, meh, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in heirloom. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, ho, me, and oh. 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in heirloom plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in heirloom and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
heirloom 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 two senses for heirloom. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
heirloom is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing heirloom unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is heirloom, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from heirloom 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 heirloom produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.