Hidden inside lockers sit lockers and relocks, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CKLORES or KELCROS and you get the same 7 letters as LOCKERS: so the words from LOCKERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
lockers and relocks tie for the highest Scrabble score from lockers at 13 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lockers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lockers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lockers. For points, the strongest plays are lockers and relocks — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lockers turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closer and locker. For points, the strongest plays are clerks, locker, ockers, and relock — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lockers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, cores and locks. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including locks, rocks and clerk.
Rearranging the letters in lockers produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke, core and lock. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including coke, lock and rock.
Unscrambling lockers turns up 29 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elk, kor, kos and 2 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in lockers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lockers 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.
lockers 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 2-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 lockers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
lockers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lockers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lockers and relocks, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lockers 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 lockers produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.