homicides needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
homicides is the highest-scoring word from homicides, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in homicides — and it is homicides itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homicides. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is homicide, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in homicides produces 4 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 echoism, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homicides turns up 22 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chimed and miched, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homicides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chose, codes and comes. For points, 9 words tie at 12 points, including chemo, chems and chime.
Rearranging the letters in homicides produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, come and dice. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling homicides turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, hid and him. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including him, chi and hem.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in homicides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in homicides 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.
homicides 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 homicides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
homicides is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing homicides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is homicides, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from homicides 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 homicides produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.