hoodooing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hoodooing is the highest-scoring word from hoodooing, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in hoodooing — and it is hoodooing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hoodooing produces exactly one seven-letter word: hooding. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoodooing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doing. For points, the strongest plays are hongi and ohing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hoodooing produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with good and hood. For points, the strongest plays are hind, hong, hood, and nigh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hoodooing turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dig, dog and god. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including hid, hog and doh.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoodooing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and hi. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hoodooing 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.
hoodooing 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.
hoodooing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hoodooing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hoodooing, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hoodooing 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 hoodooing produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.