Hidden inside khoums sit hokums and khoums, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hokums and khoums tie for the highest Scrabble score from khoums at 15 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in khoums: one comes from rearranging its letters, and khoums itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hokums and khoums, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in khoums. 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.
Rearranging the letters in khoums produces 14 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 husk and sukh, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling khoums 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 words are hom, hum, mho, and ohm, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in khoums. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hm, ho and oh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in khoums and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
khoums 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 khoums. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
khoums is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing khoums unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hokums and khoums, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from khoums 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 khoums produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.