Hidden inside alkalies sit alkalies and alkalise, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alkalies and alkalise tie for the highest Scrabble score from alkalies at 12 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in alkalies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alkalies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alkalies and alkalise, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alkalies produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alkalis and alliaks, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling alkalies turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are akelas, alkali, alkies, alliak, and alsike, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alkalies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alike, kills, lakes, leaks, likes, and skill. For points, the strongest plays are akela, alike, alkie, kails, kales, kills, lakes, leaks, likes, skell, skill, and slake — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in alkalies produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with kill, lake, leak, lies, like, sail, and sake. For points, the strongest plays are elks, ilka, ilks, kaas, kaes, kail, kale, keas, kill, lake, leak, leks, like, sake, saki, sika, sike, and silk — 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 alkalies turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ask, ill, lie, sea, and ski. For points, the strongest plays are ask, elk, ilk, kae, kas, kea, kis, lek, ska, and ski — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alkalies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as and is. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each 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 alkalies and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
alkalies 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
alkalies is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alkalies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alkalies and alkalise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alkalies 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 alkalies produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.