Hidden inside neologisms sit gloominess and neologisms, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 459 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
gloominess and neologisms tie for the highest Scrabble score from neologisms at 13 points. The top 10 of 459 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in neologisms: one comes from rearranging its letters, and neologisms itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gloominess and neologisms, 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 neologisms turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is neologism, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neologisms. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are geosmins, longsome, and osmosing, 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 neologisms produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loosens, messing, mingles, and singles. For points, the strongest plays are egoisms, geosmin, looming, messing, mingles, mongoes, mossing, and semilog — 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 neologisms turns up 88 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnomes, lemons, lesson, loosen, losing, melons, and mingle. For points, the strongest plays are egoism, genoms, gimels, gismos, glimes, glooms, gnomes, golems, mingle, mongoe, mongos, and mooing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 107 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neologisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gnome, goose, lemon, limos, lines, lions, and loose. For points, the strongest plays are genom, gimel, gismo, glime, glims, gloms, gloom, gnome, golem, mongo, and smogs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in neologisms produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with legs, less, lies, limo, line, lion, and logs. For points, the strongest plays are megs, migs, mogs, smog, gems, glim, and glom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling neologisms turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ego, goo, leg, lie, log, men, and moo. For points, the strongest plays are gem, meg, mig, and mog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in neologisms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, me, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in neologisms plus one additional letter.
neologisms 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for neologisms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
neologisms is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing neologisms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are gloominess and neologisms, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from neologisms 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 neologisms produce 459 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 88 six-letter words, 107 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.