Hidden inside ocellus sit locules and ocellus, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locules and ocellus tie for the highest Scrabble score from ocellus at 9 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in ocellus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ocellus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are locules and ocellus, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ocellus turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cellos, coleus, locule, and oscule, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ocellus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cells, close, clues, and louse. For points, the strongest plays are cello, cells, close, clues, coles, culls, locus, luces, scull, and socle — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ocellus produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cell, clue, cues, lose, sell, and soul. For points, the strongest plays are cell, cels, clue, cole, cols, cues, cull, ecos, ecus, locs, and luce — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ocellus turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are cel, col, cos, cue, eco, ecu, loc, sec, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ocellus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so and us. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, lo, oe, os, so, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ocellus and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
ocellus 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 two senses for ocellus. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ocellus is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ocellus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are locules and ocellus, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ocellus 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 ocellus produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.