Hidden inside transom sit matrons and transom, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
matrons and transom tie for the highest Scrabble score from transom at 9 points. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in transom: one comes from rearranging its letters, and transom itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are matrons and transom, 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 transom turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are manors, matron, ramson, ransom, romans, stroma, and tomans, 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transom. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, roast, smart, and storm. For points, the strongest plays are amort, atoms, manor, manos, marts, mason, moans, moats, monas, moras, morns, morts, nomas, norms, roams, roman, smart, soman, stoma, storm, toman, and trams — 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 transom produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, arms, arts, atom, most, rats, and sort. For points, the strongest plays are arms, atom, mano, mans, mars, mart, mast, mats, moan, moas, moat, mons, mora, morn, mors, mort, most, mots, noma, noms, norm, omas, rams, roam, roms, soma, tams, toms, and tram — 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 transom turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, arm, art, man, nor, not, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are arm, man, mar, mas, mat, moa, mon, mor, mos, mot, nam, nom, oma, oms, ram, rom, som, tam, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in transom. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, 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 transom 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.
transom 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for transom. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
transom is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing transom unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are matrons and transom, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from transom 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 transom produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.