Hidden inside homage sit homage and ohmage, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EAGMOH, HEAMOG or GOEAHM and you get the same 6 letters as HOMAGE: so the words from HOMAGE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
homage and ohmage tie for the highest Scrabble score from homage at 12 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in homage: one comes from rearranging its letters, and homage itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are homage and ohmage, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homage. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ogham, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in homage produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, game, and home. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including ahem, home and haem.
Unscrambling homage turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ego. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including ham, hem and hom.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and eh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in homage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in homage 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.
homage 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 one sense for homage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
homage is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are homage and ohmage, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from homage 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 homage produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.