Hidden inside relock sit locker and relock, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
locker and relock tie for the highest Scrabble score from relock at 12 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in relock: one comes from rearranging its letters, and relock itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locker. For points, the strongest plays are locker and relock — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in relock. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clerk and ocker, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in relock produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coke, core, lock, rock, and role. For points, the strongest plays are coke, cork, lock, reck, and rock — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling relock turns up 16 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.
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 relock. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ok and or. 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.
Swap a single tile in relock 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.
relock 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.
relock is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing relock unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are locker and relock, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from relock 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 relock produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.