homilist 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, 135 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homilist is the highest-scoring word from homilist, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 135 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in homilist — and it is homilist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homilist turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limits. For points, the strongest plays are holism, isthmi, and mishit — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homilist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limit, limos, and moist. For points, the strongest plays are holms, moths, and smith — 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 homilist produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hits, host, limo, list, lost, lots, and most. For points, the strongest plays are hims, holm, homs, mhos, mosh, moth, ohms, shim, 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 homilist turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his, hit, hot, its, lit, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are him, hom, 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homilist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm, ho, is, it, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in homilist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in homilist 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.
homilist 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.
homilist is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homilist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is homilist, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from homilist 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 homilist produce 135 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.