hodoscope needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hodoscope is the highest-scoring word from hodoscope, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in hodoscope — and it is hodoscope itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hodoscope produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with scooped. For points, the strongest play is pooched — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hodoscope turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose. For points, the strongest play is epochs — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hodoscope. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chops, chose and codes. For points, the strongest plays are chops, epoch, pechs, and pooch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hodoscope produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chop, code and cops. For points, the strongest plays are chop and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hodoscope turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, hop and oho. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including hop, hep and och.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hodoscope. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and ho.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in hodoscope plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hodoscope and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
hodoscope 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 1-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 hodoscope. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
hodoscope is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hodoscope unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hodoscope, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hodoscope 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 hodoscope produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.