Hidden inside moody sit doomy and moody, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doomy and moody tie for the highest Scrabble score from moody at 11 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in moody: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moody 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 doomy and moody, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in moody 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.
moody 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 moody carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for moody. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
moody is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moody unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are doomy and moody, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moody 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 moody produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.