schmooze needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 24 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
schmooze is the highest-scoring word from schmooze, worth 24 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in schmooze — and it is schmooze itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 24 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in schmooze produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is shmooze, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling schmooze turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose. For points, the strongest plays are chemos, schmoe, and smooch — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in schmooze. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chose, comes, homes, moose, and zooms. For points, the strongest plays are cozes, mozos, and zooms — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in schmooze produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, home, hose, moos, shoe, shoo, and some. For points, the strongest play is chez — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling schmooze turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moo, oho, she, and zoo. For points, the strongest play is coz — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in schmooze. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, ho, me, oh, and sh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 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 schmooze 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.
schmooze 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 two senses for schmooze. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 24 points on a Scrabble board:
schmooze is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing schmooze unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is schmooze, worth 24 points in Scrabble, and no other word from schmooze 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 schmooze produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.