Hidden inside snoops sit snoops and spoons, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
snoops and spoons tie for the highest Scrabble score from snoops at 8 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in snoops: one comes from rearranging its letters, and snoops itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with spoons. For points, the strongest plays are snoops and spoons — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in snoops produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oops, poos, sons, and soon. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including oops, poos and pons.
Swap a single tile in snoops 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.
snoops 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for snoops. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
snoops is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing snoops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are snoops and spoons, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from snoops 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 snoops produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.