Hidden inside lochias sit lochias and scholia, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lochias and scholia tie for the highest Scrabble score from lochias at 12 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lochias: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lochias itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lochias and scholia, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lochias. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chaos, colas, and hails. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including chaos, chais and chiao.
Rearranging the letters in lochias produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, cash and cola. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including cash, chai and chao.
Unscrambling lochias turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has, his, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lochias. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and ha. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ha and hi.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lochias plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lochias and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
lochias is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
lochias is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lochias unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lochias and scholia, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lochias 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 lochias produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.