Hidden inside oompahs sit oompahs and shampoo, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oompahs and shampoo tie for the highest Scrabble score from oompahs at 14 points. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in oompahs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oompahs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shampoo. For points, the strongest plays are oompahs and shampoo — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oompahs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hoops. For points, the strongest plays are oomph and pashm — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oompahs produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hams, hoop and hops. For points, 22 words tie at 9 points, including hams, hoop and hops.
Unscrambling oompahs turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ham and has. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including ham, hop and hap.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oompahs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in oompahs plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in oompahs and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
oompahs 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.
oompahs is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oompahs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oompahs and shampoo, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oompahs 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 oompahs produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.