Hidden inside sombreness 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 sombreness 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 sombreness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sombreness 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 sombreness 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 sombreness. 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 sombreness 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 sombreness 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 sombreness. 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 sombreness 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 sombreness 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 sombreness. 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.
sombreness 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 three senses for sombreness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
sombreness is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sombreness 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 sombreness 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 sombreness 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.