Hidden inside shylock sit shlocky and shylock, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 19 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shlocky and shylock tie for the highest Scrabble score from shylock at 19 points. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in shylock: one comes from rearranging its letters, and shylock 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 shlocky and shylock, each worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shylock produces exactly one six-letter word: shlock. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shylock. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locks and shock. For points, the strongest play is choky — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in shylock produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with holy, lock, and sock. For points, the strongest plays are coky, hock, and yock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling shylock turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shy, sky, and soy. For points, the strongest plays are sky and yok — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in shylock. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, ok, oy, sh, so, and yo. 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 shylock 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.
shylock 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in shylock carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for shylock. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
shylock is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing shylock unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shlocky and shylock, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from shylock 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 shylock produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.