shmoozing needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 24 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 156 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shmoozing is the highest-scoring word from shmoozing, worth 24 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 156 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in shmoozing — and it is shmoozing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 24 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shmoozing produces 5 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: zooming, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shmoozing turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mooing. For points, the strongest play is gizmos — worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shmoozing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moons and zooms. For points, the strongest play is gizmo — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shmoozing produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hogs and moon. For points, the strongest plays are mozo and zoom — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling shmoozing turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goo, him and his. For points, the strongest play is zig — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shmoozing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in shmoozing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shmoozing and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
shmoozing 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
shmoozing is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shmoozing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is shmoozing, worth 24 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shmoozing 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 shmoozing produce 156 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.