hymnody needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hymnody is the highest-scoring word from hymnody, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hymnody — and it is hymnody itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hymnody produces 5 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are homy and hymn, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hymnody turns up 17 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hoy, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hymnody. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, hm and ho. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hymnody and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
hymnody 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 hymnody. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
hymnody is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hymnody unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hymnody, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hymnody 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 hymnody produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.