lookalike needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lookalike is the highest-scoring word from lookalike, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in lookalike — and it is lookalike itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lookalike produces exactly one seven-letter word: oaklike. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lookalike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alike. For points, the strongest plays are alike and alkie — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lookalike produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kill, lake and leak. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including kill, lake and leak.
Unscrambling lookalike turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ill, lie, and oil. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including elk, ilk and kae.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lookalike. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ok. For points, the strongest plays are ka, ki, and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in lookalike plus one additional letter.
lookalike 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
lookalike is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lookalike unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lookalike, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lookalike 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 lookalike produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.