Hidden inside hockey sit chokey and hockey, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chokey and hockey tie for the highest Scrabble score from hockey at 18 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in hockey: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hockey itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hockey. For points, the strongest plays are chokey and hockey — each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hockey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choke. For points, the strongest play is choky — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in hockey produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke and heck. For points, the strongest plays are coky, heck, hock, and yock — 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 hockey turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hey and key. For points, the strongest plays are key, kye, and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hockey. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, ok, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 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 hockey 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.
hockey 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 two senses for hockey. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
hockey is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hockey unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chokey and hockey, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hockey 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 hockey produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.