Hidden inside loctus sit clouts and locust, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LOCTUS isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CLOUTS and LOCUST.
clouts and locust tie for the highest Scrabble score from loctus at 8 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling loctus turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clouts and locust, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loctus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cults and scout. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including cults, scout and clots.
Rearranging the letters in loctus produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, cult and cuts. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including cost, cult and cuts.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in loctus plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in loctus and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clouts and locust, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loctus 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 loctus produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.