Hidden inside shootsm is one standout: smooths, a seven-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HOTMOSS, HOSTMOS or SHOOMST and you get the same 7 letters as SHOOTSM: so the words from SHOOTSM listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
SHOOTSM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SMOOTHS (verb), < SMOOTH, to make smooth, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
smooths is the highest-scoring word from shootsm, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling shootsm produces exactly one seven-letter word: smooths. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shootsm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosts, shoot, and shots. For points, the strongest plays are homos, mohos, and moths — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shootsm produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host, moos and most. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including homo, homs and mhos.
Unscrambling shootsm turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, moo and oho. For points, the strongest plays are hom, mho, and ohm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in shootsm plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in shootsm 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is smooths, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from shootsm 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 shootsm produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.