choosy needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
choosy is the highest-scoring word from choosy, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in choosy — and it is choosy itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling choosy produces exactly one five-letter word: cohos. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling choosy turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oho, shy, and soy. For points, the strongest plays are hoy and shy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in choosy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in choosy 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.
choosy 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 one sense for choosy. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
choosy is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing choosy unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is choosy, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from choosy 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 choosy produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.