Hidden inside ohmages sit homages and ohmages, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 145 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homages and ohmages tie for the highest Scrabble score from ohmages at 13 points. The top 10 of 145 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ohmages: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ohmages 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 homages and ohmages, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ohmages turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are homage, oghams, and ohmage, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ohmages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with games, homes, and shame. For points, the strongest play is ogham — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ohmages produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, ahem and egos. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including ahem, hams and home.
Unscrambling ohmages turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ash. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including ham, hem and hom.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ohmages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in ohmages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ohmages 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.
ohmages 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 ohmages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ohmages is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ohmages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are homages and ohmages, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ohmages 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 ohmages produce 145 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.