Unscramble PILLOCKS and you have 131 words, PILLOCKS itself among them: it scores 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. PILLOCK is the best of the shorter words, at 15 points. 8 letters: 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from PILLOCKS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 26 with 5, 52 with 4, 36 with 3 and 14 with 2. None has 6 letters.
PICKS, POCKS and SPICK are the top 5-letter words made with PILLOCKS letters, 13 points each. CLIPS, POLLS and SKILL will look familiar.
The 4-letter words you get when you unscramble PILLOCKS are led by PICK and POCK, 12 points each. PICS, SKIP and CLIP are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of PILLOCKS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with PI · ending in KS · all 8-letter words
What PILLOCKS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
PILLOCKS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PILLOCKS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 131) | 111 | 130 | 91 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
22 of the 131 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: PILLOCKS, PILLOCK, ICKS, COPI, KOIS, OIKS, SKOL, KIS, LIPOS, LOCIS, OIK, KI and 10 more. 18 of the 131 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SILLOCK, KILPS, POLKS, KILP, POLK, LISK, SKIO, CILLS, COLLS, SIK, CILL, COLL and 6 more. 1 of the 131 answers is missing from Scrabble US: SPICK. 1 of the 131 answers is missing from Scrabble US and Scrabble UK: SPIK.
Each word below uses all the letters of PILLOCKS and one more.