homesick needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homesick is the highest-scoring word from homesick, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in homesick — and it is homesick itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in homesick produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is chokies, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling homesick turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chokes. For points, the strongest plays are chokes and hoicks — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homesick. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choke, chose, comes, hikes, homes, mocks, and shock. For points, the strongest plays are choke, hecks, hicks, hocks, hoick, and shock — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in homesick produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke, come, heck, hike, home, hose, and ices. For points, the strongest plays are heck, hick, and hock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling homesick turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his, ice, she, and ski. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homesick. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, hm, ho, is, and me. 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 homesick and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
homesick 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for homesick. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
homesick is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homesick unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is homesick, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from homesick 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 homesick produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.