interlocks needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 940 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
interlocks is the highest-scoring word from interlocks, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 940 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in interlocks — and it is interlocks itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling interlocks turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clonkiest and interlock, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stricken. For points, 13 words tie at 14 points, including stricken, clinkers and clonkier.
Rearranging the letters in interlocks produces 90 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clients, lockers and nickels. For points, 27 words tie at 13 points, including lockers, nickels and reckons.
Unscrambling interlocks turns up 189 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with client, clones and closer. For points, 24 words tie at 12 points, including locker, nickel and reckon.
There are 273 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, kites and knits. For points, 26 words tie at 11 points, including licks, locks and necks.
Rearranging the letters in interlocks produces 236 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and coke. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including coke, lick and lock.
Unscrambling interlocks turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and ink. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interlocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
interlocks 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for interlocks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
interlocks is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing interlocks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is interlocks, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from interlocks 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 interlocks produce 940 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 90 seven-letter words, 189 six-letter words, 273 five-letter words, 236 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.