Hidden inside locies sit colies and locies, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
colies and locies tie for the highest Scrabble score from locies at 8 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in locies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and locies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are colies and locies, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close and slice. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, close, coils, coles, cosie, locie, locis, oleic, slice, and socle — 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 locies produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ices, lice, lies, lose, oils, and soli. For points, the strongest plays are ceil, cels, coil, cole, cols, ecos, ices, lice, loci, locs, and sice — 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 locies turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ice, lie, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are cel, cis, col, cos, eco, ice, loc, sec, sic, and soc — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is and so. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, is, li, lo, oe, oi, os, si, and so — each worth 2 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 locies and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
locies 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.
locies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are colies and locies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from locies 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 locies produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.