Hidden inside hominess sit hominess and monishes, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hominess and monishes tie for the highest Scrabble score from hominess at 13 points. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in hominess: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hominess itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hominess and monishes, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hominess produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is homines, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hominess turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises and shines. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including hemins, homies and inmesh.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hominess. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, hoses and noise. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including homes, hemin and homie.
Rearranging the letters in hominess produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, home and hose. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including home, hems and hims.
Unscrambling hominess turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, him and his. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including him, hem and hom.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hominess. 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.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in hominess plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hominess 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.
hominess 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.
hominess is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hominess unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hominess and monishes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hominess 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 hominess produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.