Hidden inside zooier sit oozier and zooier, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
oozier and zooier tie for the highest Scrabble score from zooier at 15 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in zooier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and zooier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are oozier and zooier, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling zooier produces exactly one five-letter word: oorie. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 5 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in zooier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in zooier 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.
zooier 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in zooier carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
zooier is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing zooier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are oozier and zooier, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from zooier 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 zooier produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.