Hidden inside hocked sit choked and hocked, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
choked and hocked tie for the highest Scrabble score from hocked at 16 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hocked: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hocked itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choked. For points, the strongest plays are choked and hocked — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hocked produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, coke and deck. For points, the strongest plays are heck and hock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hocked turns up 11 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is och, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in hocked plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hocked and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
hocked 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in hocked carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hocked is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hocked unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are choked and hocked, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hocked 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 hocked produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.