oozy needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 4 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oozy is the highest-scoring word from oozy, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 4 of 4 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in oozy — and it is oozy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oozy produces exactly one three-letter word: zoo. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oozy. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: oy and yo, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in oozy 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.
oozy 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 oozy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
oozy is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oozy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is oozy, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from oozy 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 oozy produce 4 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 1 three-letter word and 2 two-letter words.