locations needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 389 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locations is the highest-scoring word from locations, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 389 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in locations — and it is locations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with location. For points, the strongest plays are altcoins, colonist, coolants, location, octanols, and stolonic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in locations produces 17 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions and lotions. For points, the strongest plays are actions, alnicos, altcoin, atonics, cations, catlins, citolas, coltans, coolant, octanol, oilcans, stoical, and tincals — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locations turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, casino, colons, lotion, and social. For points, the strongest plays are actins, action, alnico, antics, atonic, cantos, casino, cation, catlin, citola, cloots, coatis, coital, colins, coloni, colons, coltan, consol, contos, costal, cotans, linacs, nastic, nicols, nostoc, octans, oilcan, scotia, social, ticals, tincal, tocsin, and tonics — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, coins, colas, colon, cools, and lions. For points, the strongest plays are actin, antic, ascon, ascot, cains, calos, canso, canst, canto, cants, cions, clans, clast, clits, clons, cloot, clots, coals, coast, coati, coats, coils, coins, colas, colin, colon, colts, conto, cools, coons, coots, costa, cotan, icons, laics, linac, locis, locos, lotic, nicol, octal, octan, ontic, salic, scant, scion, scoot, sonic, stoic, tacos, talcs, tical, tocos, and tonic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in locations produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, ants, last, lion, list, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are acts, asci, lacs, laic, loca, loci, loco, locs, ocas, otic, scan, scat, scot, soca, cain, calo, cals, cans, cant, cast, cats, ciao, cion, cist, clan, clit, clon, clot, coal, coat, coil, coin, cola, cols, colt, coni, cons, cool, coon, coos, coot, cost, cots, icon, taco, talc, tics, and toco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locations turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, its, and lit. For points, the strongest plays are act, cal, can, cat, cis, col, con, coo, cos, cot, lac, loc, oca, sac, sic, soc, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ai, al, an, as, at, in, is, it, la, li, lo, na, no, oi, on, os, si, so, ta, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in locations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in locations and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
locations 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for locations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
locations is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is locations, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locations 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 locations produce 389 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 17 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.