hogmenay needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hogmenay is the highest-scoring word from hogmenay, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in hogmenay — and it is hogmenay itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hogmenay produces exactly one seven-letter word: hogmane. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hogmenay turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are homage, mangey, and ohmage, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hogmenay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, gnome, honey, and money. For points, the strongest plays are homey, hymen, and mynah — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hogmenay produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, ahoy and amen. For points, the strongest plays are homy and hymn — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hogmenay turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and any. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including gym, hay and hey.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hogmenay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in hogmenay plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hogmenay 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.
hogmenay 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.
hogmenay is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hogmenay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hogmenay, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hogmenay 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 hogmenay produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.