Hidden inside locales sit callose and locales, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
callose and locales tie for the highest Scrabble score from locales at 9 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in locales: one comes from rearranging its letters, and locales 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 callose and locales, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locales turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locals. For points, the strongest plays are cellos, locale, locals, and solace — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in locales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calls, cells, close, colas, local, and scale. For points, the strongest plays are alecs, calls, calos, cella, cello, cells, close, coals, colas, coles, laces, local, scale, scall, and socle — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in locales produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, call, case, cell, cola, lose, and sale. For points, the strongest plays are aces, alec, call, calo, cals, case, cell, cels, coal, cola, cole, cols, ecos, lace, lacs, loca, locs, ocas, and soca — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling locales turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, cal, cel, col, cos, eco, lac, loc, oca, sac, sec, and soc — each worth 5 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 locales. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, al, as, el, es, la, lo, oe, os, and so — each worth 2 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 locales 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.
locales 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 3-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 locales. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
locales is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing locales unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are callose and locales, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from locales 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 locales produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.