Hidden inside alike sit alike and alkie, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alike and alkie tie for the highest Scrabble score from alike at 9 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in alike: one comes from rearranging its letters, and alike itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alike. For points, the strongest plays are alike and alkie — 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 alike produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lake, leak, and like. For points, the strongest plays are ilka, kail, kale, lake, leak, and like — 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 alike turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie. For points, the strongest plays are elk, ilk, kae, kea, and lek — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in alike. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ka and ki, 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 alike 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.
alike 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 two senses for alike. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
alike is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing alike unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alike and alkie, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from alike 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 alike produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.