Hidden inside moochers sit moochers and smoocher, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moochers and smoocher tie for the highest Scrabble score from moochers at 15 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in moochers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moochers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moochers and smoocher, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moochers produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chromes, chromos, moocher, and mooches, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moochers turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose and chores. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including chemos, chrome and chromo.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moochers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chore, chose and comes. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including chemo, chems and mechs.
Rearranging the letters in moochers produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, core and hero. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moochers turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, moo, oho, and she. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including hem, hom and meh.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moochers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in moochers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moochers 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.
moochers 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 one sense for moochers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
moochers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moochers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moochers and smoocher, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moochers 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 moochers produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.