hogmenays needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 389 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hogmenays is the highest-scoring word from hogmenays, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 389 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in hogmenays — and it is hogmenays itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hogmenays. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hogmenay, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hogmenays produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hogmane, homages, and ohmages, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hogmenays turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnomes. For points, the strongest plays are homeys, hymens, mynahs, and shamoy — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hogmenays. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, games and gnome. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including homey, hymen and hymns.
Rearranging the letters in hogmenays produces 139 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ahem and ahoy. For points, the strongest plays are homy and hymn — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hogmenays turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and any. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including gym, hay and hey.
There are 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hogmenays. 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.
Swap a single tile in hogmenays and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
hogmenays 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.
hogmenays is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hogmenays unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hogmenays, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hogmenays 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 hogmenays produce 389 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 139 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.