housemates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 443 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
housemates is the highest-scoring word from housemates, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 443 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in housemates — and it is housemates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling housemates turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hematoses, housemate, and outshames, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housemates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is outshame, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in housemates produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are heaumes, humates, and mahouts, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling housemates turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuses, assume, houses, mouses, mouths, shames, and sheets. For points, the strongest plays are heaume, humate, mahoes, mahout, mashes, meshes, moshes, mouths, mushes, musths, muthas, samshu, shames, shamos, shamus, shmoes, and themes — 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 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housemates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, ashes, atoms, autos, eases, hates, and heats. For points, the strongest plays are haems, hames, hemes, homas, homes, mahoe, maths, meths, moths, mouth, musth, mutha, shame, shams, shmoe, shtum, smash, smush, and theme — 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 housemates produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, atom, auto, mass, mate, math, and meat. For points, the strongest plays are ahem, mash, math, mesh, meth, mhos, mosh, moth, mush, ohms, sham, shmo, haem, hame, hams, heme, hems, homa, home, homs, hums, and them — 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 housemates turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass, ate, eat, ham, has, and hat. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, hom, hum, meh, 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 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in housemates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, eh, ha, and he. 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in housemates plus one additional letter.
housemates 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 housemates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
housemates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing housemates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is housemates, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from housemates 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 housemates produce 443 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.