hoodlum needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hoodlum is the highest-scoring word from hoodlum, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hoodlum — and it is hoodlum itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hoodlum produces exactly one six-letter word: modulo. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoodlum. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duomo and mould, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hoodlum produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doom, hold, hood, loud, and mood. For points, the strongest plays are holm, homo, and moho — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hoodlum turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duh, moo, mud, oho, and old. For points, the strongest plays are hom, hum, mho, and ohm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoodlum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, hm, ho, oh, uh, and um. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in hoodlum plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hoodlum and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
hoodlum 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 hoodlum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
hoodlum is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hoodlum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hoodlum, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hoodlum 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 hoodlum produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.