doohickey needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 22 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doohickey is the highest-scoring word from doohickey, worth 22 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in doohickey — and it is doohickey itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 22 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling doohickey produces exactly one seven-letter word: hoicked. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling doohickey turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choked, cooked and cookie. For points, the strongest plays are chokey, hickey, and hockey — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doohickey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choke and hiked. For points, the strongest play is choky — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in doohickey produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, coke and cook. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including heck, coky and hick.
Unscrambling doohickey turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye and hey. For points, the strongest plays are key, khi, kye, and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doohickey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in doohickey plus one additional letter.
doohickey 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 1-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 doohickey. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 22 points on a Scrabble board:
doohickey is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing doohickey unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is doohickey, worth 22 points in Scrabble, and no other word from doohickey 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 doohickey produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.