Hidden inside locav is one standout: vocal, a five-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LOCAV isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to VOCAL (noun), a sound produced with the voice, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
vocal is the highest-scoring word from locav, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling locav produces exactly one five-letter word: vocal. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locav. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are al, la, and lo, each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in locav 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 vocal, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locav 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 locav produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.