Hidden inside holmes sit holmes and mohels, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
holmes and mohels tie for the highest Scrabble score from holmes at 11 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in holmes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and holmes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holmes and mohels, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holmes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, homes, and moles. For points, the strongest plays are helms, holme, holms, homes, mohel, and shmoe — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in holmes produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hole, home, hose, lose, mole, shoe, and some. For points, the strongest plays are helm, hems, holm, home, homs, mesh, mhos, mosh, ohms, and shmo — 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 holmes turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with she. For points, the strongest plays are hem, hom, meh, mho, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in holmes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, ho, me, oh, and sh. 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.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in holmes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in holmes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
holmes 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 four senses for holmes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
holmes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing holmes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holmes and mohels, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from holmes 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 holmes produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.