doohickeys needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 23 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 309 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doohickeys is the highest-scoring word from doohickeys, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 309 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in doohickeys — and it is doohickeys itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling doohickeys produces exactly one nine-letter word: doohickey. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 22 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in doohickeys produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cookies and shocked. For points, the strongest plays are chokeys, hickeys, and hockeys — each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling doohickeys turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choked, chokes and choose. For points, the strongest plays are chokey, hickey, and hockey — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doohickeys. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choke, chose and codes. For points, the strongest play is choky — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in doohickeys produces 94 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 doohickeys turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dye and hey. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including key, sky and khi.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doohickeys. 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.
doohickeys 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 doohickeys. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
doohickeys is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing doohickeys unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is doohickeys, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from doohickeys 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 doohickeys produce 309 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 14 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 94 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.