hemlock needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hemlock is the highest-scoring word from hemlock, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in hemlock — and it is hemlock itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemlock. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: choke, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hemlock produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke, come, heck, hole, home, lock, and mock. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling hemlock turns up 20 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hem, hom, meh, mho, och, and ohm, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemlock. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hm, ho, me, oh, and ok. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in hemlock plus one additional letter.
hemlock 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for hemlock. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
hemlock is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hemlock unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hemlock, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hemlock 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 hemlock produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.