locutions needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locutions is the highest-scoring word from locutions, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in locutions — and it is locutions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locutions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with solution. For points, the strongest plays are colonist, linocuts, locution, and stolonic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in locutions produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with consult and lotions. For points, the strongest plays are colonus, consult, linctus, linocut, oculist, suction, and uncoils — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locutions turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coitus, colons, counts, cousin, insult, and lotion. For points, the strongest plays are clonus, cloots, clouts, coitus, colins, coloni, colons, consol, consul, contos, coulis, counts, cousin, cunits, cutins, incult, locust, nicols, nostoc, tocsin, toluic, tonics, tunics, uncoil, and uncool — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locutions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, colon, cools, count, cults, lions, and scout. For points, the strongest plays are cions, clits, clons, cloot, clots, clout, coils, coins, colin, colon, colts, conto, conus, cools, coons, coots, count, culti, cults, cunit, cutin, cutis, icons, ictus, incus, locis, locos, locus, lotic, nicol, oculi, ontic, scion, scoot, scout, sonic, stoic, sulci, tocos, tonic, tunic, and uncos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in locutions produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, cool, cost, cult, cuts, and into. For points, the strongest plays are cion, cist, clit, clon, clot, coil, coin, cols, colt, coni, cons, cool, coon, coos, coot, cost, cots, cult, cuts, icon, loci, loco, locs, otic, scot, scut, tics, toco, unci, and unco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locutions turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut, its, lit, lot, not, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are cis, col, con, coo, cos, cot, cut, loc, sic, soc, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locutions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are in, is, it, li, lo, no, nu, oi, on, os, si, so, ti, to, un, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in locutions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in locutions 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.
locutions 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 one sense for locutions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
locutions is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locutions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is locutions, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locutions 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 locutions produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.