Hidden inside tomographs sit photograms and tomographs, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 507 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
photograms and tomographs tie for the highest Scrabble score from tomographs at 18 points. The top 10 of 507 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in tomographs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tomographs 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 photograms and tomographs, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tomographs 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 words are photogram and tomograph, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling tomographs produces exactly one eight-letter word: taprooms. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tomographs produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shampoo. For points, the strongest plays are morphos, oompahs, and shampoo — 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 tomographs turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with grooms, motors, orgasm, photos, smooth, and troops. For points, the strongest plays are morpho, morphs, oompah, and oomphs — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tomographs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, ghost, goats, groom, harms, hoops, and maths. For points, the strongest plays are morph, oomph, and pashm — 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 tomographs produces 192 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argh, arms, arts, atom, maps, math, and moos. For points, the strongest plays are mash, math, mhos, moho, mosh, moth, ohms, opah, pash, path, phat, phos, phot, pooh, posh, sham, shmo, shop, soph, gamp, hams, haps, harm, harp, hasp, homa, homo, homs, hoop, hops, and toph — 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 tomographs turns up 110 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, arm, art, ash, gap, gas, and goo. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hap, hom, hop, mho, ohm, pah, pho, pht, and poh — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tomographs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, as, at, go, ha, and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
tomographs 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 one sense for tomographs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
tomographs is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tomographs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are photograms and tomographs, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tomographs 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 tomographs produce 507 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 192 four-letter words, 110 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.