Unscramble GAVELOCK and you have 142 words, GAVELOCK itself among them: it scores 18 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. LOCKAGE is the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from GAVELOCK by length: 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 4 with 6, 17 with 5, 56 with 4, 51 with 3 and 12 with 2.
LOCKAGE is the only one of the 7-letter words in GAVELOCK; it scores 14 points.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble GAVELOCK are led by GECK and VOLK, 11 points each. LOVE, LAKE and GOAL are the familiar ones.
ACK tops the 3-letter words in GAVELOCK at 9 points; next come GAK and KEG on 8. AGE, LOG and AGO will look familiar.
Trade one tile of GAVELOCK for another and you can spell these 4 words:
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What GAVELOCK means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
GAVELOCK works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GAVELOCK itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 142) | 111 | 142 | 101 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
31 of the 142 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ALECK, CLOKE, CAVEL, KOGAL, VOLAGE, GALVO, KAGO, ALKO, GAK, LOAVE, LOKE, VEGO and 19 more. 10 of the 142 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: VOLK, ACK, VEGA, VLOG, CLEG, VOG, OK, CAL, ECO and LOC.
This word takes every letter of GAVELOCK plus a single extra one.