Hidden inside hocks sit hocks and shock, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hocks and shock tie for the highest Scrabble score from hocks at 14 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hocks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hocks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shock. For points, the strongest plays are 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 hocks produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sock. For points, the strongest play is hock — 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 hocks turns up 8 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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, ok, sh, and so. 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 hocks and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
hocks 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 hocks carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for hocks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
hocks is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hocks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hocks and shock, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hocks 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 hocks produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.