Hidden inside arkose sit arkose, resoak, and soaker, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arkose, resoak, and soaker tie for the highest Scrabble score from arkose at 10 points. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in arkose: two come from rearranging its letters, and arkose 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 arkose, resoak, and soaker, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arkose. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asker, eskar, koras, okras, rakes, and saker, 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 arkose produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, rose, sake, soak, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are arks, kaes, keas, koas, kora, kore, kors, oaks, okas, okes, okra, rake, sake, sark, soak, and soke — 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 arkose turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ask, kae, kas, kea, koa, kor, kos, oak, oka, oke, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in arkose. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, ok, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ok — 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 arkose 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.
arkose 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 arkose carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
arkose is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing arkose unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arkose, resoak, and soaker, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from arkose 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 arkose produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.