Hidden inside shoot sit hoots, shoot, and sooth, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble HOTSO, STHOO or OOHTS and you get the same 5 letters as SHOOT: so the words from SHOOT listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
hoots, shoot, and sooth tie for the highest Scrabble score from shoot at 8 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in shoot: two come from rearranging its letters, and shoot itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shoot. For points, the strongest plays are hoots, shoot, and sooth — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in shoot produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host, shoo, and shot. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including host, shoo and shot.
Swap a single tile in shoot and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
shoot 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 twenty-two senses for shoot. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
shoot is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shoot unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hoots, shoot, and sooth, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shoot 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 shoot produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.