lookalikes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lookalikes is the highest-scoring word from lookalikes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in lookalikes — and it is lookalikes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lookalikes produces exactly one nine-letter word: lookalike. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lookalikes 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.
Unscrambling lookalikes turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alkies, alsike, and lookie, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lookalikes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alike and kills. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including alike, kills and lakes.
Rearranging the letters in lookalikes produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, kill and lake. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including kill, lake and leak.
Unscrambling lookalikes turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ask and ill. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ski and elk.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lookalikes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, is, ok, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ka, ki, and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
lookalikes 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.
lookalikes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lookalikes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lookalikes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lookalikes 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 lookalikes produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.