Hidden inside mocha sit macho and mocha, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
macho and mocha tie for the highest Scrabble score from mocha at 12 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in mocha: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mocha itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are macho and mocha, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in mocha 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.
mocha 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 four senses for mocha. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
mocha is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mocha unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are macho and mocha, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mocha 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 mocha produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.