Hidden inside arkish sit rakish, shikar, and shikra, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ARKISH isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to RAKISH, SHIKAR and SHIKRA.
rakish, shikar, and shikra tie for the highest Scrabble score from arkish at 13 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling arkish turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rakish, shikar, and shikra, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arkish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hairs and shark. For points, the strongest plays are haiks, harks, shark, and shirk — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in arkish produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, hair, rash, and risk. For points, the strongest plays are haik, hark, and khis — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling arkish turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ash and ask. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arkish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and ha. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
14 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in arkish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in arkish 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rakish, shikar, and shikra, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arkish 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 arkish produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.