locking needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NICKLOG, CLOGINK or GOLNICK and you get the same 7 letters as LOCKING: so the words from LOCKING listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
locking is the highest-scoring word from locking, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in locking — and it is locking itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with logic. For points, the strongest plays are clink and clonk — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in locking produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, king and lick. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including lick, lock and conk.
Unscrambling locking turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ink, log, and oil. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locking. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in locking plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in locking 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.
locking 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 one sense for locking. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
locking is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locking unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is locking, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from locking 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 locking produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.