locksmiths needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 21 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 338 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locksmiths is the highest-scoring word from locksmiths, worth 21 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 338 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in locksmiths — and it is locksmiths itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 21 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locksmiths produces exactly one nine-letter word: locksmith. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locksmiths produces exactly one eight-letter word: stockish. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locksmiths produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sitcoms. For points, the strongest plays are schtiks, shlocks, and shticks — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locksmiths turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shocks, sitcom, sticks, and stocks. For points, the strongest plays are hoicks, kitsch, schtik, shlock, shocks, shtick, and thicks — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locksmiths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costs, hosts, licks, limos, lists, locks, and milks. For points, the strongest plays are hicks, hocks, hoick, shock, and thick — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in locksmiths produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lick, limo, list, lock, loss, lost, and lots. For points, the strongest plays are hick and hock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locksmiths turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him, his, hit, hot, its, kit, and lit. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locksmiths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm, ho, is, it, oh, and ok. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
locksmiths 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 locksmiths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 21 points on a Scrabble board:
locksmiths is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locksmiths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is locksmiths, worth 21 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locksmiths 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 locksmiths produce 338 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.