Hidden inside hormones sit hormones and moorhens, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hormones and moorhens tie for the highest Scrabble score from hormones at 13 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in hormones: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hormones itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hormones. For points, the strongest plays are hormones and moorhens — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hormones produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hormone. For points, the strongest plays are hormone and moorhen — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hormones turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with honors and morons. For points, the strongest plays are homers, mosher, and shroom — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hormones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, honor and horns. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including homes, herms and homer.
Rearranging the letters in hormones produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hens, hero and hers. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including home, hems and herm.
Unscrambling hormones turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her and men. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including hem, hom and meh.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hormones. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in hormones plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hormones 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.
hormones 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 hormones. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hormones is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hormones unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hormones and moorhens, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hormones 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 hormones produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.