Hidden inside locat is one standout: octal, a five-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LOCAT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OCTAL (adjective), pertaining to a number system with a base of eight, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
octal is the highest-scoring word from locat, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling locat produces exactly one five-letter word: octal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locat produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat, cola, and taco. For points, the strongest plays are calo, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, loca, taco, and talc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locat turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, cat, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are act, cal, cat, col, cot, lac, loc, and oca — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locat. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and to. For points, the strongest plays are al, at, la, lo, ta, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in locat and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is octal, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locat 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 locat produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 12 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.