lummox needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 17 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lummox is the highest-scoring word from lummox, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 17 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in lummox — and it is lummox itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lummox turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mom. For points, the strongest play is mux — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lummox. If a familiar word is all you need, start with um. For points, the strongest plays are ox and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in lummox plus one additional letter.
lummox 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 lummox. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
lummox is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lummox unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lummox, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lummox 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 lummox produce 17 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 8 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.