Hidden inside hyponyms sit hyponyms and symphony, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 21 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hyponyms and symphony tie for the highest Scrabble score from hyponyms at 21 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in hyponyms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hyponyms 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 hyponyms and symphony, each worth 21 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hyponyms 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 hyponym, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hyponyms turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nympho and nymphs, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hyponyms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with phony. For points, the strongest plays are myopy and nymph — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hyponyms produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hops, mops, pony, and shop. For points, the strongest plays are homy, hymn, hypo, hyps, and syph — 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 hyponyms turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop, mop, shy, son, soy, and spy. For points, the strongest play is hyp — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hyponyms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hm, ho, my, no, oh, on, and oy. For points, the strongest plays are hm and my — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in hyponyms 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.
hyponyms is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for hyponyms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
hyponyms is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hyponyms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hyponyms and symphony, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hyponyms 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 hyponyms produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.