Hidden inside unblocks sit sunblock and unblocks, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sunblock and unblocks tie for the highest Scrabble score from unblocks at 16 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in unblocks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unblocks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sunblock and unblocks, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in unblocks produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with unlocks. For points, the strongest play is unblock — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unblocks turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with blocks and unlock. For points, the strongest plays are blocks and buckos — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unblocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with block, bonus, bucks, clubs, locks, and snuck. For points, the strongest plays are block, bocks, bucko, and bucks — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in unblocks produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with buck, buns, club, cons, lock, luck, and sock. For points, the strongest plays are bock and buck — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling unblocks turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bun, bus, con, son, sub, and sun. For points, the strongest play is kob — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unblocks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, ok, on, so, and us. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in unblocks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unblocks and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
unblocks 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for unblocks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
unblocks is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unblocks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sunblock and unblocks, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unblocks 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 unblocks produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.