locating needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 211 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locating is the highest-scoring word from locating, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 211 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in locating — and it is locating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locating produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are catling, coaling, coating, cotinga, otalgic, and talcing, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locating turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting and action. For points, the strongest plays are acting, agonic, coting, lacing, and locing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with along, giant, logic, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are acing, clang, cling, coign, conga, incog, and logic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in locating produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat, coin, cola, gain, goal, goat, and into. For points, the strongest plays are clag and clog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locating turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ago, ant, can, cat, con, and gal. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 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 locating 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.
locating 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for locating. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
locating is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is locating, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locating 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 locating produce 211 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.