akees needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
akees is the highest-scoring word from akees, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in akees — and it is akees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in akees produces 8 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ease, sake, and seek. For points, the strongest plays are akee, ekes, kaes, keas, sake, seek, and skee — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling akees turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, sea, and see. For points, the strongest plays are ask, eek, eke, kae, kas, kea, and ska — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in akees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 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 akees and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
akees 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in akees carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for akees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
akees is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing akees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is akees, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from akees 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 akees produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.