Hidden inside telomes sit omelets and telomes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
omelets and telomes tie for the highest Scrabble score from telomes at 9 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in telomes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and telomes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with omelets. For points, the strongest plays are omelets and telomes — 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 telomes turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with molest, motels, and omelet. For points, the strongest plays are emotes, metols, molest, motels, omelet, and telome — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in telomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, melts, moles, motel, smelt, steel, and stole. For points, the strongest plays are emote, meets, melts, metes, metol, moles, molts, moste, motel, motes, smelt, smolt, smote, teems, and tomes — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in telomes produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets, lose, lost, lots, meet, and melt. For points, the strongest plays are elms, emes, emos, meet, mels, melt, mete, mole, mols, molt, most, mote, mots, seem, seme, some, stem, teem, tome, and toms — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling telomes turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, lot, met, see, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are elm, eme, emo, ems, mel, mes, met, mol, mos, mot, oms, som, and tom — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in telomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in telomes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
telomes 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.
telomes is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing telomes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are omelets and telomes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from telomes 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 telomes produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.