awakes 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.
awakes is the highest-scoring word from awakes, 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 awakes — and it is awakes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in awakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with awake and wakes. For points, the strongest plays are askew, awake, wakes, and wekas — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in awakes produces 11 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.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in awakes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in awakes 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.
awakes 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 awakes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for awakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
awakes is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing awakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is awakes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from awakes 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 awakes produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.