sodomites needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 252 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sodomites is the highest-scoring word from sodomites, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 252 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sodomites — and it is sodomites itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sodomites. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are distomes, doomiest, modistes and 5 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sodomites produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demists, distome, misdoes and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sodomites turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with missed and tossed. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including missed, deisms and demist.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sodomites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dimes and dooms. For points, 15 words tie at 8 points, including dimes, dooms and modes.
Rearranging the letters in sodomites produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dime. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including dime, doom and mode.
Unscrambling sodomites turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and ids. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sodomites. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
Swap a single tile in sodomites 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.
sodomites 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 sodomites. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sodomites is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sodomites unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sodomites, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sodomites 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 sodomites produce 252 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 10 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.