warlocks needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 189 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
warlocks is the highest-scoring word from warlocks, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 189 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in warlocks — and it is warlocks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling warlocks produces exactly one seven-letter word: warlock. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling warlocks turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crawls. For points, the strongest plays are wackos and wracks — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in warlocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claws, colas and crawl. For points, the strongest plays are wacko, wacks, and wrack — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in warlocks produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, cars and claw. For points, the strongest play is wack — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling warlocks turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, car and cow. For points, the strongest play is wok — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in warlocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw and ok. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in warlocks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in warlocks and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
warlocks 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 2-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 warlocks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
warlocks is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing warlocks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is warlocks, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from warlocks 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 warlocks produce 189 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 10 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.