Hidden inside khoum sit hokum and khoum, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hokum and khoum tie for the highest Scrabble score from khoum at 14 points. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in khoum: one comes from rearranging its letters, and khoum itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hokum and khoum, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling khoum turns up 4 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hom, hum, 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in khoum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hm, ho, oh, ok, uh, and um. 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.
Swap a single tile in khoum and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
khoum 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 khoum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
khoum is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing khoum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hokum and khoum, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from khoum 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 khoum produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.