knockout needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
knockout is the highest-scoring word from knockout, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in knockout — and it is knockout itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in knockout produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cook, knot and onto. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including cook, tuck and conk.
Unscrambling knockout turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut and not. For points, the strongest plays are con, coo, cot, and cut — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in knockout plus one additional letter.
knockout 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 three senses for knockout. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
knockout is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing knockout unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is knockout, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from knockout 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 knockout produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.