HOME is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. HOME is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HOME?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HOME is to know. It scores 9 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HOME
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HOME scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in HOME, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 10,212.
What does HOME mean in Scrabble?
noun
The place where a person lives.
Home covers a building, a country and a state of belonging, and most languages need separate words for those. Translators reach for it as an example of what does not carry across.
How HOME is used
Countable and uncountable. Also an adverb.
- A home rather than a house, as the estate agents put it.
- The word home covers a building and a feeling at once.
- They went home in silence.
- Two homes in the same street and no resemblance.
- Translators use home as their standard example.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HOME and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HOME
Showing 24 of 158 words that begin with HOME.
Words ending in HOME
9 words end in HOME. Useful as a back hook: play HOME onto a word already on the board.
Words with HOME inside
Showing 24 of 70 words that contain HOME somewhere in the middle. Words that start with HOME are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HOME
Common questions about HOME
- Is HOME valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HOME, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HOME worth?
- HOME is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HOME mean?
- The place where a person lives.
- What letters can be added to HOME?
- HOME takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of HOME:
Open HOME in the Word Finder