lockages needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 198 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lockages is the highest-scoring word from lockages, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 198 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in lockages — and it is lockages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lockages produces exactly one seven-letter word: lockage. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lockages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, cakes and close. For points, the strongest plays are gecko and gecks — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lockages produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, also and cage. For points, the strongest play is geck — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lockages turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and ask. For points, the strongest play is ack — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lockages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, ok, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in lockages plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lockages 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.
lockages 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 three senses for lockages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
lockages is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lockages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lockages, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lockages 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 lockages produce 198 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.