shmooze needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shmooze is the highest-scoring word from shmooze, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in shmooze — and it is shmooze itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shmooze. If a familiar word is all you need, start with homes, moose, and zooms. For points, the strongest plays are 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 shmooze produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with home, hose, moos, shoe, shoo, some, and zoom. For points, the strongest plays are mozo and zoom — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shmooze turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moo, oho, she, and zoo. For points, the strongest plays are sez and zoo — each worth 12 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 shmooze. 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 shmooze 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.
shmooze 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in shmooze carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for shmooze. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
shmooze is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shmooze unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shmooze, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shmooze 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 shmooze produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.