blockages needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 320 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blockages is the highest-scoring word from blockages, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 320 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in blockages — and it is blockages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockages. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are backlogs and blockage, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blockages produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is backlog, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blockages turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bagels, blocks, and cables. For points, the strongest plays are blacks and blocks — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with backs, bagel and bakes. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including backs, black and block.
Rearranging the letters in blockages produces 129 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with able, ages and also. For points, the strongest plays are back, beck, and bock — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blockages turns up 79 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ask. For points, the strongest plays are ack, kab, and kob — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blockages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, be and go. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in blockages and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
blockages 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for blockages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
blockages is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blockages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blockages, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blockages 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 blockages produce 320 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 129 four-letter words, 79 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.