hammerlock 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, 350 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hammerlock is the highest-scoring word from hammerlock, worth 23 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 350 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in hammerlock — and it is hammerlock itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 23 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hammerlock produces 12 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: hammock, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hammerlock turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hammer and locker. For points, the strongest plays are choker, hacker, hackle, and hocker — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammerlock. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camel, chalk and charm. For points, the strongest plays are chalk, chark, choke, and hacek — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hammerlock produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, cake and calm. For points, the strongest plays are hack, heck, and hock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hammerlock turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and car. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammerlock. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and eh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in hammerlock plus one additional letter.
hammerlock 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 3-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 hammerlock. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 23 points on a Scrabble board:
hammerlock is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hammerlock unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hammerlock, worth 23 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hammerlock 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 hammerlock produce 350 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.