hokku needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hokku is the highest-scoring word from hokku, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in hokku — and it is hokku itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hokku. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, ok, and uh. 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.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in hokku plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hokku 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.
hokku 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 hokku carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
hokku is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hokku unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hokku, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hokku 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 hokku produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word and 4 two-letter words.