should needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DUSOLH, SHUDOL or HOLUSD and you get the same 6 letters as SHOULD: so the words from SHOULD listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
should is the highest-scoring word from should, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in should — and it is should itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in should produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hold, loud, sold, and soul. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including hold, dohs and dosh.
Unscrambling should turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duh and old. For points, the strongest plays are doh, duh, and hod — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in should. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ho and oh. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in should plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in should 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.
should 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.
should is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing should unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is should, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from should 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 should produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.