chooses needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 64 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SHOSECO, SCHOOES or HESCOSO and you get the same 7 letters as CHOOSES: so the words from CHOOSES listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
chooses is the highest-scoring word from chooses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 64 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in chooses — and it is chooses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chooses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chess, chose, hoses, and shoes. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including chess, chose and cohoe.
Rearranging the letters in chooses produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hose, shoe, and shoo. For points, the strongest plays are coho, cosh, echo, and oche — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling chooses turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oho and she. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in chooses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chooses and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
chooses 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in chooses carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for chooses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
chooses is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chooses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is chooses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from chooses 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 chooses produce 64 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.