Hidden inside hometowns sit hometowns and townhomes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 303 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hometowns and townhomes tie for the highest Scrabble score from hometowns at 17 points. The top 10 of 303 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in hometowns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hometowns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hometowns and townhomes, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hometowns. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hometown and townhome, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hometowns produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with somehow. For points, the strongest plays are showmen and somehow — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hometowns turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honest, months, smooth, and soothe. For points, the strongest play is whomso — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hometowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, meths, month, moons, moose, notes, and shone. For points, the strongest plays are howes, nohow, shewn, shown, thews, whens, whets, whose, whoso, and woosh — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hometowns produces 116 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, home, hose, host, meth, moon, and moos. For points, the strongest play is whom — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hometowns turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, hot, how, men, met, moo, and net. For points, the strongest plays are hew, how, and who — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hometowns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, ew, he, hm, ho, me, and no. 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 hometowns 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.
hometowns 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 hometowns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
hometowns is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hometowns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hometowns and townhomes, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hometowns 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 hometowns produce 303 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 116 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.