Hidden inside clocking sit clocking and cockling, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clocking and cockling tie for the highest Scrabble score from clocking at 17 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in clocking: one comes from rearranging its letters, and clocking itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clocking and cockling, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clocking produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locking. For points, the strongest play is cocking — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clocking turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is coking, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clocking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with click, clock, and logic. For points, the strongest plays are click and clock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in clocking produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cock, coin, king, lick, link, lion, and lock. For points, the strongest play is cock — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling clocking turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ink, log, and oil. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in clocking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, no, ok, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in clocking 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.
clocking 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 clocking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
clocking is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing clocking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clocking and cockling, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from clocking 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 clocking produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.