homilies needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 146 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homilies is the highest-scoring word from homilies, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 146 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in homilies — and it is homilies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homilies turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holism, holmes, homies, and mohels, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homilies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, homes and limos. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including homes, helms and holme.
Rearranging the letters in homilies produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hole, home and hose. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including home, helm and hems.
Unscrambling homilies turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his and lie. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including him, hem and hom.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homilies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in homilies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in homilies 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.
homilies 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 homilies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
homilies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homilies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is homilies, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from homilies 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 homilies produce 146 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.