Hidden inside school sit cholos and school, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cholos and school tie for the highest Scrabble score from school at 11 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in school: one comes from rearranging its letters, and school itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with school. For points, the strongest plays are cholos and school — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in school. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cools. For points, the strongest plays are cholo, cohos, and lochs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in school produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cool, shoo, and solo. For points, the strongest plays are coho, cosh, and loch — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling school turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oho. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in school. 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 school and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
school 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 ten senses for school. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
school is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing school unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cholos and school, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from school 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 school produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.