foo and oof tie for the highest Scrabble score from foo at 6 points. The top 3 of 3 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in foo: one comes from rearranging its letters, and foo itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are foo and oof, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling foo produces exactly one two-letter word: of. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
foo is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
foo is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing foo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are foo and oof, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from foo 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 foo produce 3 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.