Hidden inside sixteenmo sit sixteenmo and xenotimes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sixteenmo and xenotimes tie for the highest Scrabble score from sixteenmo at 18 points. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in sixteenmo: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sixteenmo itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sixteenmo and xenotimes, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sixteenmo. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is xenotime, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sixteenmo produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sixteen. For points, the strongest play is exotism — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sixteenmo turns up 21 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are exomes, minxes, moxies, and oximes, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sixteenmo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exist, exits and items. For points, 6 words tie at 14 points, including mixes, exome and moxie.
Rearranging the letters in sixteenmo produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, exit and into. For points, the strongest plays are minx, mixt, and oxim — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sixteenmo turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men and met. For points, the strongest play is mix — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sixteenmo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in sixteenmo plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sixteenmo and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
sixteenmo 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.
sixteenmo is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sixteenmo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sixteenmo and xenotimes, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sixteenmo 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 sixteenmo produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.