homewards 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, 519 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homewards is the highest-scoring word from homewards, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 519 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in homewards — and it is homewards 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 homewards. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is homeward, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in homewards produces 7 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 deworms, marshed, meadows, and swarmed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homewards turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, dreams and harmed. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including shadow, showed and washed.
There are 135 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homewards. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, armed and dares. For points, the strongest plays are shawm, whamo, and whams — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in homewards produces 175 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, arms and made. For points, the strongest plays are wham and whom — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homewards turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and arm. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including how, who and haw.
There are 35 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homewards. 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.
Swap a single tile in homewards 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.
homewards 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 homewards carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for homewards. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
homewards is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homewards unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is homewards, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from homewards 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 homewards produce 519 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 135 five-letter words, 175 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 35 two-letter words.