Hidden inside hoce sit echo and oche, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 10 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CHEO, EOCH or HEOC and you get the same 4 letters as HOCE: so the words from HOCE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
HOCE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ECHO and OCHE.
echo and oche tie for the highest Scrabble score from hoce at 9 points. The top 10 of 10 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in hoce produces 2 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are echo and oche, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hoce and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are echo and oche, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hoce 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 hoce produce 10 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 3 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.