homeward 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, 206 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homeward is the highest-scoring word from homeward, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 206 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in homeward — and it is homeward itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homeward turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with harmed and warmed. For points, the strongest play is whored — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homeward. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, armed and dream. For points, the strongest play is whamo — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in homeward produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, dare and dear. For points, the strongest plays are wham and whom — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homeward turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ear. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including how, who and haw.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homeward. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and am. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in homeward plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in homeward 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.
homeward 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 homeward carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for homeward. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
homeward is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homeward unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is homeward, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from homeward 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 homeward produce 206 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.