Hidden inside oohs sit oohs and shoo, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oohs and shoo tie for the highest Scrabble score from oohs at 7 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in oohs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oohs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shoo. For points, the strongest plays are oohs and shoo — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling oohs turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oho. For points, the strongest plays are hoo, hos, oho, ohs, ooh, sho, and soh — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oohs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in oohs and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
oohs 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 oohs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
oohs is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oohs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oohs and shoo, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oohs 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 oohs produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.