awaken needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble KAENWA, EAKANW or ANWAKE and you get the same 6 letters as AWAKEN: so the words from AWAKEN listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
awaken is the highest-scoring word from awaken, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in awaken — and it is awaken itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in awaken. If a familiar word is all you need, start with awake. For points, the strongest plays are awake, knawe, and waken — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in awaken produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with knew, wake, and weak. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including knew, wake and weak.
Unscrambling awaken turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with new. For points, the strongest plays are kae, kea, and ken — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in awaken. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in awaken plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in awaken 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.
awaken 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 three senses for awaken. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
awaken is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing awaken unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is awaken, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from awaken 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 awaken produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.