Hidden inside looker sit looker and relook, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble KOOREL, ROLEKO or REOKOL and you get the same 6 letters as LOOKER: so the words from LOOKER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
looker and relook tie for the highest Scrabble score from looker at 10 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in looker: one comes from rearranging its letters, and looker itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are looker and relook, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling looker turns up 10 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are elk, kor, lek, and oke, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in looker plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in looker 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.
looker 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for looker. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
looker is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing looker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are looker and relook, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from looker 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 looker produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.