Hidden inside som sit mos, oms, and som, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 7 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mos, oms, and som tie for the highest Scrabble score from som at 5 points. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in som: two come from rearranging its letters, and som itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mos, oms, and som, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in som. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in som and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
som is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record two senses for som. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
som is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing som unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mos, oms, and som, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from som 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 som produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.