lekythos needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lekythos is the highest-scoring word from lekythos, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in lekythos — and it is lekythos itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lekythos turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hotels. For points, the strongest play is kythes — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lekythos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holes, hotel, stole, style, and those. For points, the strongest plays are hokey and kythe — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lekythos produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hole, holy, hose, host, keys, lets, and lose. For points, the strongest plays are hoke, holk, keys, khet, kohl, kyes, kyte, okeh, syke, tyke, yelk, yoke, yoks, and yolk — 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.
Unscrambling lekythos turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hey, hot, key, let, lot, set, and she. For points, the strongest plays are key, kye, sky, and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lekythos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, ok, oy, and sh. 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 lekythos and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
lekythos 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
lekythos is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lekythos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lekythos, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lekythos 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 lekythos produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.