Hidden inside locushy sit chylous and slouchy, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LOCUSHY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CHYLOUS and SLOUCHY.
chylous and slouchy tie for the highest Scrabble score from locushy at 15 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in locushy 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 words are chylous and slouchy, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locushy produces exactly one six-letter word: slouch. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locushy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lousy. For points, the strongest play is cushy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locushy produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holy, ouch, soul, and such. For points, the strongest plays are lych and yuch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling locushy turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shy, soy, and you. For points, the strongest plays are hoy and shy — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in locushy and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chylous and slouchy, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from locushy 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 locushy produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.