Unscramble HOMEWARE to get 176 words. HOMEWARE itself is a real word: 16 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. It has 8 letters, 4 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from HOMEWARE split into 1 with 8 letters, 5 with 6, 25 with 5, 59 with 4, 60 with 3 and 26 with 2. None has 7 letters.
4 of 59 4-letter words from HOMEWARE tie at 12 points; none scores more. MORE, HOME and HERE will look familiar.
Of the 60 3-letter words you get when you unscramble HOMEWARE, 5 score 9 points, the group's best. ARE, WHO and WAR are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of HOMEWARE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with HO · ending in RE · all 8-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with WHAMO (13 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
HOMEWARE is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOMEWARE itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 176) | 132 | 176 | 123 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOMEWARE, HAWM, MWAH, WHEARE, HOWRE, REHOME, WHARE, WHEAR, HEAME, HORME, MOWRA, OMRAH and 32 more, 44 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: RHEME, HOMA, HOM, MEH, EEW, EMO, EW, OMA and ARO, 9 in all.
This word takes every letter of HOMEWARE plus a single extra one.