128 words come out when you unscramble ISONOMOUS, starting with ISONOMOUS itself: 11 in Scrabble, 14 in Words With Friends. The best shorter words score 9: 5 of them, OMINOUS, MONOSIS and OSMIOUS included. It has 9 letters, 5 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from ISONOMOUS by length: 1 with 9 letters, 5 with 7, 4 with 6, 19 with 5, 39 with 4, 41 with 3 and 19 with 2. None has 8 letters.
26 of 39 4-letter words from ISONOMOUS tie at 6 points; none scores more. SOON, MISS and MOON will look familiar.
Keep every letter of ISONOMOUS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with IS · ending in US · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by OMINOUS, OSMIOUS, SIMOONS and SOMONIS (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: ISONOMOUS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISONOMOUS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 128) | 99 | 128 | 83 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ISONOMOUS, MONOSIS, ONIUMS, MINOS, SOOMS, SOUMS, MINO, MOOI, MOUS, OOMS, SOOM, SOUM and 17 more, 29 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SOMONIS, SOMONI, MUSOS, SUMIS, MUSO, SOMS, SUMI, MOI, SOM, UMS, ONOS, UNIS and 4 more, 16 in all.