holk and kohl tie for the highest Scrabble score from kohl at 11 points. The top 6 of 6 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in kohl: one comes from rearranging its letters, and kohl itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are holk and kohl, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kohl. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, and ok. 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 kohl and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
kohl 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 kohl carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for kohl. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
kohl is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kohl unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are holk and kohl, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kohl 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 kohl produce 6 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words and 4 two-letter words.