blocking 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, 107 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
blocking is the highest-scoring word from blocking, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 107 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in blocking — and it is blocking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blocking produces exactly one seven-letter word: locking. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blocking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bingo, blink, block, and logic. For points, the strongest play is block — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in blocking produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blog, boil and coin. For points, the strongest play is bock — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling blocking turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with big, con and ink. For points, the strongest plays are ick and kob — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in blocking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in blocking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in blocking 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.
blocking 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 5-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 blocking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
blocking is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing blocking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is blocking, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from blocking 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 blocking produce 107 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.