Hidden inside smooches sit schmoose and smooches, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
schmoose and smooches tie for the highest Scrabble score from smooches at 15 points. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in smooches: one comes from rearranging its letters, and smooches itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are schmoose and smooches, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smooches produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chooses. For points, the strongest plays are mooches, schmoes, and schmoos — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smooches turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose. For points, the strongest plays are chemos, schmoe, schmos, 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smooches. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chess, chose, comes, homes, hoses, moose, and shoes. For points, the strongest plays are chemo, chems, mechs, mooch, and schmo — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in smooches produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with come, home, hose, mess, moos, shoe, and shoo. For points, the strongest plays are chem and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling smooches turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with moo, oho, and she. For points, the strongest plays are hem, hom, meh, mho, och, and ohm — each worth 8 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 smooches. 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 smooches 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.
smooches 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 smooches. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
smooches is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smooches unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are schmoose and smooches, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smooches 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 smooches produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.