locomotion needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locomotion is the highest-scoring word from locomotion, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in locomotion — and it is locomotion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locomotion produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is monocot, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locomotion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colon. For points, the strongest play is monic — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locomotion produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cool and into. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including coin, cool and limo.
Unscrambling locomotion turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, lit and lot. For points, the strongest plays are mic and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locomotion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, the strongest plays are mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in locomotion plus one additional letter.
locomotion 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 4-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 locomotion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
locomotion is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locomotion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is locomotion, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locomotion 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 locomotion produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.