Hidden inside moguls sit glomus and moguls, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
glomus and moguls tie for the highest Scrabble score from moguls at 9 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in moguls: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moguls itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are glomus and moguls, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moguls. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gloms, glums, and mogul, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moguls produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gums, logs and mugs. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including gums, mugs and smug.
Unscrambling moguls turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gum, log, and mug. For points, the strongest plays are gum, mog, and mug — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moguls. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, so, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are mo, mu, om, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in moguls plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moguls and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
moguls 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for moguls. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
moguls is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moguls unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are glomus and moguls, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moguls 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 moguls produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.