kolo and look tie for the highest Scrabble score from look at 8 points. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in look: one comes from rearranging its letters, and look itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with look. For points, the strongest plays are kolo and look — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling look produces exactly one three-letter word: loo. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 3 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in look. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: 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 look and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
look 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record fourteen senses for look. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
look is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing look unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kolo and look, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from look 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 look produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 1 three-letter word and 2 two-letter words.