Hidden inside choose sit choose and cohoes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
choose and cohoes tie for the highest Scrabble score from choose at 11 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in choose: one comes from rearranging its letters, and choose itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose. For points, the strongest plays are choose and cohoes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in choose produces 11 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 choose turns up 18 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.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in choose plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in choose and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
choose 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 choose carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for choose. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
choose is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing choose unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are choose and cohoes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from choose 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 choose produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.