locksteps needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 268 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locksteps is the highest-scoring word from locksteps, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 268 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in locksteps — and it is locksteps itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locksteps. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is lockstep, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locksteps produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closest, closets, pockets, and topless. For points, the strongest play is pockets — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locksteps turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closes, closet, pocket, and stocks. For points, the strongest plays are pocket and specks — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locksteps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, costs and locks. For points, the strongest plays are pecks, pocks, and speck — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locksteps produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke, cops and cost. For points, the strongest plays are peck and pock — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locksteps turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, let and lot. For points, the strongest plays are kep and kop — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locksteps. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ok, so, and to. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in locksteps plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in locksteps 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.
locksteps 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 two senses for locksteps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
locksteps is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locksteps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is locksteps, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locksteps 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 locksteps produce 268 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.