Hidden inside phonograms sit monographs, nomographs, and phonograms, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 437 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
monographs, nomographs, and phonograms tie for the highest Scrabble score from phonograms at 18 points. The top 10 of 437 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in phonograms: two come from rearranging its letters, and phonograms 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 monographs, nomographs, and phonograms, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling phonograms turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are monograph, nomograph, and phonogram, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in phonograms. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is harpoons, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in phonograms produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orphans and shampoo. For points, the strongest plays are morphos, oompahs, shampoo, and shopman — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling phonograms turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grooms, honors, morons, organs, orgasm, and orphan. For points, the strongest plays are morpho, morphs, oompah, and oomphs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in phonograms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, groom, hangs, harms, honor, hoops, and horns. For points, the strongest plays are morph, oomph, and pashm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in phonograms produces 145 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, arms, maps, moon, moos, mops, and nags. For points, the strongest plays are mash, mhos, moho, mosh, ohms, opah, pash, phon, phos, pooh, posh, sham, shmo, shop, soph, gamp, hams, haps, harm, harp, hasp, homa, homo, homs, hoop, and hops — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling phonograms turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, arm, ash, gap, gas, goo, and ham. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hap, hom, hop, mho, ohm, pah, pho, and poh — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in phonograms. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, as, go, ha, and hm. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in phonograms plus one additional letter.
phonograms 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 3-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 phonograms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
phonograms is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing phonograms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are monographs, nomographs, and phonograms, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from phonograms 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 phonograms produce 437 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 145 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.