Hidden inside hoo sit hoo, oho, and ooh, three-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hoo, oho, and ooh tie for the highest Scrabble score from hoo at 6 points. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 three-letter words hiding in hoo: two come from rearranging its letters, and hoo itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oho. For points, the strongest plays are hoo, oho, and ooh — 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 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoo. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: ho and oh, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in hoo and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
hoo 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.
hoo is one of three three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hoo unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hoo, oho, and ooh, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hoo 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 hoo produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.