Hidden inside somberness sit somberness and sombreness, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 246 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
somberness and sombreness tie for the highest Scrabble score from somberness at 14 points. The top 10 of 246 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in somberness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and somberness 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 somberness and sombreness, 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 somberness turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is embossers, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in somberness. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are embosser and embosses, 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 somberness produces 7 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 boreens, enrobes, moreens, mossers, and sermons, 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 somberness turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boners, bosses, messes, obsess, and senses. For points, the strongest plays are bermes, besoms, bromes, embers, emboss, ombers, ombres, somber, and sombre — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in somberness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, boner, bones, borne, noses, robes, and roses. For points, the strongest plays are berme, berms, besom, brome, ember, omber, and ombre — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in somberness produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with been, beer, bees, bone, bore, born, and boss. For points, the strongest plays are berm and mobs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling somberness turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, men, mob, nor, one, rob, and see. For points, the strongest play is mob — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in somberness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, me, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are be, bo, em, me, 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.
somberness 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 three senses for somberness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
somberness is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing somberness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are somberness and sombreness, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from somberness 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 somberness produce 246 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.