Hidden inside askew sit askew, wakes, and wekas, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
askew, wakes, and wekas tie for the highest Scrabble score from askew at 12 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in askew: two come from rearranging its letters, and askew itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wakes. For points, the strongest plays are askew, wakes, and wekas — 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 askew produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sake, wake, and weak. For points, the strongest plays are skew, wake, weak, and weka — 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 askew turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask, saw, sea, sew, and was. For points, the strongest plays are ask, 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in askew. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, aw, ew, and we. 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 askew 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.
askew 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 askew carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for askew. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
askew is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing askew unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are askew, wakes, and wekas, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from askew 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 askew produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.