Hidden inside hooks sit hooks and shook, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hooks and shook tie for the highest Scrabble score from hooks at 12 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hooks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hooks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: hooks and shook, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hooks produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hook and shoo. For points, the strongest play is hook — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hooks turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oho. For points, the strongest play is kos — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hooks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, ok, sh, and so. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in hooks and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
hooks 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 hooks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
hooks is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hooks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hooks and shook, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hooks 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 hooks produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.