locksmith needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 259 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locksmith is the highest-scoring word from locksmith, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 259 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in locksmith — and it is locksmith itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locksmith produces exactly one seven-letter word: coltish. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locksmith turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sitcom. For points, 6 words tie at 15 points, including hoicks, kitsch and schtik.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locksmith. If a familiar word is all you need, start with licks, limos and locks. For points, 5 words tie at 14 points, including shock, thick and hicks.
Rearranging the letters in locksmith produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, hits and host. For points, the strongest plays are hick and hock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locksmith turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his and hit. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locksmith. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm and ho. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in locksmith plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in locksmith and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
locksmith 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 one sense for locksmith. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 20 points on a Scrabble board:
locksmith is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locksmith unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is locksmith, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locksmith 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 locksmith produce 259 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 17 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.