Unscramble HOMELESS and you have 157 words, HOMELESS itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 11: 5 of them, HOLMES, MESHES and MOHELS included. 8 letters: 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for holesmes, holemess, heelsoms, seelsomh, shelsome or sholeems? They use the same letters as HOMELESS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from HOMELESS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 9 with 6, 32 with 5, 60 with 4, 38 with 3 and 17 with 2. None has 7 letters.
7 of 32 5-letter words made with HOMELESS letters tie at 10 points; none scores more. SHOES, HOMES and SEEMS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from HOMELESS, 11 score 9 points, the group's best. HOME, SOME and LESS are the ones most people know.
These 6 words have the length of HOMELESS, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with HO · ending in SS · all 8-letter words
What HOMELESS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes. HOMELESS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOMELESS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 157) | 127 | 157 | 107 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SHEELS, HELES, MESELS, SHEEL, HELE, LEMES, LOMES, LOSH, MESEL, MESES, MOSES, SMEES and 18 more, 30 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: HOLMES, MOSHES, HOLME, SHMOE, HOMS, MOSH, HOM, MEH, HOSS, SESH, SOHS, EMOS and 8 more, 20 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of HOMELESS and one more.