Hooligans is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 421 anagrams from letters in hooligans (aghilnoos).
First recorded in 1895-1900; perhaps after the Irish surname Hooligan, but corroborating evidence is lacking
Then it began to dawn on Matt that the schemers had fallen back on hooligan.
He is a hooligan; that's precisely what he is, and once I was pleased at his coming to my concert.
The family's away for the summer, and hooligan is able to do about as he pleases there.
If we'd got to hooligan's half an hour sooner, we might have rescued the girl.
But it was not even a nobleman's rod; any moujik, any hooligan, could wield it.
Even the hooligan was probably invented in China centuries before we thought of him.
And not a thing had been stolen—not a hooligan had dared enter.
And then there is Caminero, who remains, quietly simply, a hooligan.
"That's a game two can play at, hooligan," answered Harris coolly.
He must suffer for smashing up my rooms exactly as if he had been a hooligan in the street.