Hidden inside trichomes sit chromiest, chromites, and trichomes, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 557 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chromiest, chromites, and trichomes tie for the highest Scrabble score from trichomes at 16 points. The top 10 of 557 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in trichomes: two come from rearranging its letters, and trichomes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chromiest, chromites, and trichomes, each worth 16 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 trichomes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chromite and trichome, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in trichomes produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moister, mothers, and richest. For points, the strongest plays are chemist, chimers, chrisom, chromes, chromis, echoism, homeric, and thermic — 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 trichomes turns up 89 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choirs, chores, crimes, erotic, itches, mother, and others. For points, the strongest plays are chemos, chimer, chimes, chirms, chrism, chrome, cometh, miches, mochis, schmoe, and smirch — 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 154 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trichomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chest, choir, chore, chose, comes, cores, and cries. For points, the strongest plays are chemo, chems, chime, chirm, hemic, mechs, merch, miche, mochi, ohmic, and schmo — 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 trichomes produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meth, mice, more, most, rest, rice, and rich. For points, the strongest plays are mech and chem — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling trichomes turns up 87 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, him, his, hit, hot, ice, and its. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hem, hic, him, hom, ich, meh, mho, och, and ohm — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trichomes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, ho, is, and it. 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.
Swap a single tile in trichomes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
trichomes 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
trichomes is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trichomes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chromiest, chromites, and trichomes, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trichomes 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 trichomes produce 557 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 89 six-letter words, 154 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 87 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.