Hidden inside alock is one standout: cloak, a five-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ALOCK isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CLOAK (verb), to conceal, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
cloak is the highest-scoring word from alock, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling alock produces exactly one five-letter word: cloak. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in alock produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cola, lack, and lock. For points, the strongest plays are calk, lack, and lock — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in alock plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alock 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cloak, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from alock 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 alock produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.