Hidden inside homes sit homes and shmoe, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homes and shmoe tie for the highest Scrabble score from homes at 10 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in homes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and homes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes. For points, the strongest plays are homes and shmoe — 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 homes produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with home, hose, shoe, and some. For points, the strongest plays are hems, home, homs, mesh, mhos, mosh, ohms, and shmo — 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 homes turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with she. For points, the strongest plays are hem, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, ho, me, oh, and sh. 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.
Swap a single tile in homes and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
homes 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in homes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record fourteen senses for homes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
homes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are homes and shmoe, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from homes 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 homes produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.