Hidden inside hoceos 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.
HOCEOS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CHOOSE and COHOES.
choose and cohoes tie for the highest Scrabble score from hoceos at 11 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling hoceos turns up 2 six-letter words. 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 hoceos 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 hoceos 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 hoceos plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hoceos 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are choose and cohoes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hoceos 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 hoceos 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.