Hidden inside homogenies sit homogenies and homogenise, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 308 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homogenies and homogenise tie for the highest Scrabble score from homogenies at 16 points. The top 10 of 308 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in homogenies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and homogenies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are homogenies and homogenise, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homogenies. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hegemons, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in homogenies produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seeming and someone. For points, the strongest plays are gnomish, hegemon, meshing, and moshing — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homogenies turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnomes, mooing, and seeing. For points, the strongest play is homing — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homogenies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genes, gnome and goose. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including homes, hemes and hemin.
Rearranging the letters in homogenies produces 94 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with egos, gene and goes. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including home, heme and hems.
Unscrambling homogenies turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, gee and goo. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including him, hem and hom.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homogenies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, go and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in homogenies plus one additional letter.
homogenies 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 2-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 homogenies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
homogenies is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homogenies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are homogenies and homogenise, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from homogenies 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 homogenies produce 308 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.