hemlocks needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hemlocks is the highest-scoring word from hemlocks, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in hemlocks — and it is hemlocks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hemlocks produces exactly one seven-letter word: hemlock. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hemlocks turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chokes. For points, the strongest plays are chokes and shlock — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemlocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choke, chose, close, comes, holes, homes, and locks. For points, the strongest plays are choke, hecks, hocks, and shock — each 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 hemlocks produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke, come, heck, hole, home, hose, and lock. 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 hemlocks turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with she. For points, the strongest plays 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hemlocks. 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.
Swap a single tile in hemlocks and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
hemlocks 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 hemlocks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
hemlocks is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hemlocks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hemlocks, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hemlocks 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 hemlocks produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.