Hidden inside kimonos sit kimonos and monoski, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kimonos and monoski tie for the highest Scrabble score from kimonos at 13 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in kimonos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kimonos itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kimonos and monoski, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kimonos 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 word is kimono, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kimonos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moons. For points, the strongest plays are minks, monks, and mooks — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in kimonos produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inks, moon, moos, sink, skin, and soon. For points, the strongest plays are mink, monk, mook, mosk, and skim — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling kimonos turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ink, moo, sin, ski, and son. For points, the strongest plays are ink, kin, kis, koi, kos, oik, and ski — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kimonos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, ok, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 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 kimonos 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.
kimonos 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 2-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 kimonos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
kimonos is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kimonos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kimonos and monoski, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kimonos 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 kimonos produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.