194 words come out when you unscramble LOCKAGES, starting with LOCKAGES itself: 15 in Scrabble, 18 in Words With Friends. LOCKAGE is the best of the shorter words, at 14 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from LOCKAGES split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 7, 8 with 6, 48 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 16 with 2.
Just 1 of the 7-letter words in LOCKAGES: LOCKAGE, for 14 points.
GECKO and GECKS share the top score of 12 among the 5-letter words you get when you unscramble LOCKAGES. CLOSE, SCALE and GOALS are the ones most people know.
The best of the 4-letter words from LOCKAGES is GECK, 11 points; CAKE and CALK on 10 follow. CASE, LAKE and LACK are everyday picks.
ACK scores highest among the 3-letter words in LOCKAGES at 9 points, ahead of GAK and KEG on 8. AGE, LOG and ASK are the ones most people know.
These 6 words have the length of LOCKAGES, with one letter different:
More 8-letter words: starting with LO · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What LOCKAGES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept LOCKAGES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOCKAGES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 194) | 156 | 194 | 142 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 38 of them: ALECKS, CLOKES, ALECK, CLOKE, KOGALS, KAGOS, KOGAL, ALKOS, GAKS, KAGO, LOKES, SKOG and 26 more. Words With Friends* skips 14 of them: ACK, CLEGS, SKOL, CALOS, CLEG, CALS, ECOS, OK, CAL, ECO, LOC, SOC and 2 more.
These 2 words take every letter of LOCKAGES plus a single extra one.