Hidden inside mocks sit mocks and smock, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 18 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mocks and smock tie for the highest Scrabble score from mocks at 13 points. The top 10 of 18 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in mocks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mocks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mocks. For points, the strongest plays are mocks and smock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in mocks produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mock and sock. For points, the strongest play is mock — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling mocks turns up 7 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are kos and moc, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ok and so. For points, the strongest play is ok — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 six-letter word can be made using all the letters in mocks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mocks and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
mocks 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for mocks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
mocks is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mocks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mocks and smock, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mocks 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 mocks produce 18 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.