Hidden inside goober sit booger and goober, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
booger and goober tie for the highest Scrabble score from goober at 9 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in goober: one comes from rearranging its letters, and goober itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with booger. For points, the strongest plays are booger and goober — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in goober produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore and robe. For points, the strongest plays are berg and gobo — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling goober turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beg, boo, ego, goo, and rob. For points, the strongest plays are beg, bog, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in goober. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, go, and or. For points, the strongest plays are be and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in goober 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.
goober 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for goober. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
goober is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing goober unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are booger and goober, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from goober 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 goober produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.