Hidden inside hoops sit hoops and poohs, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hoops and poohs tie for the highest Scrabble score from hoops at 10 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hoops: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hoops itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoops. For points, the strongest plays are hoops and poohs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hoops produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoop, hops, oops, poos, shoo, and shop. For points, the strongest plays are hoop, hops, phos, pooh, posh, shop, and soph — 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 hoops turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hop, oho, and poo. For points, the strongest plays are hop, pho, and poh — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 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 hoops 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.
hoops 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 hoops carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for hoops. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
hoops is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hoops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hoops and poohs, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hoops 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 hoops produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.