Hidden inside hoposam sit oompahs and shampoo, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
HOPOSAM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OOMPAHS and SHAMPOO.
oompahs and shampoo tie for the highest Scrabble score from hoposam at 14 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in hoposam produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shampoo. For points, the strongest plays are oompahs and shampoo — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoposam. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoops. For points, the strongest plays are oomph and pashm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hoposam produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hams, hoop and hops. For points, 22 words tie at 9 points, including hams, hoop and hops.
Unscrambling hoposam turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ham and has. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including ham, hop and hap.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hoposam. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in hoposam plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hoposam 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oompahs and shampoo, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hoposam 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 hoposam produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.