Hidden inside locality sit coitally and locality, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coitally and locality tie for the highest Scrabble score from locality at 13 points. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in locality: one comes from rearranging its letters, and locality itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coitally and locality, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locality. If a familiar word is all you need, start with local and loyal. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including coaly, colly and lytic.
Rearranging the letters in locality produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, city and clay. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including city, clay and acyl.
Unscrambling locality turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, all and cat. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locality. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, ay and it. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
8 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in locality plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in locality 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.
locality 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for locality. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
locality is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locality unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coitally and locality, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from locality 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 locality produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.