Hidden inside dlocs sit clods, colds, and scold, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DLOCS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CLODS, COLDS and SCOLD.
clods, colds, and scold tie for the highest Scrabble score from dlocs at 8 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dlocs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colds. For points, the strongest plays are clods, colds, and scold — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dlocs produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cold and sold. For points, the strongest plays are clod, cods, cold, and docs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in dlocs 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 plays from these letters are clods, colds, and scold, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dlocs 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 dlocs produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.