Hidden inside alkies sit alkies and alsike, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alkies and alsike tie for the highest Scrabble score from alkies at 10 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in alkies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alkies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alkies and alsike, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, alike and lakes. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including alike, lakes and leaks.
Rearranging the letters in alkies produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lake, leak and lies. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including lake, leak and like.
Unscrambling alkies turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, lie, sea, and ski. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ski and elk.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alkies. 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.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in alkies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in alkies and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
alkies 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for alkies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
alkies is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alkies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alkies and alsike, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alkies 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 alkies produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.