hookworm needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hookworm is the highest-scoring word from hookworm, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in hookworm — and it is hookworm itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hookworm produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hook, room, whom, work, and worm. For points, the strongest play is howk — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hookworm turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with how, moo, oho, row, who, and woo. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hookworm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hm, ho, oh, ok, or, and ow. 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 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in hookworm plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hookworm and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
hookworm 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hookworm carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for hookworm. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
hookworm is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hookworm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hookworm, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hookworm 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 hookworm produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.