Hidden inside bake sit bake and beak, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble BEKA, EABK or BKAE and you get the same 4 letters as BAKE: so the words from BAKE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
bake and beak tie for the highest Scrabble score from bake at 10 points. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in bake: one comes from rearranging its letters, and bake itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bake. For points, the strongest plays are bake and beak — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in bake and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
bake 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 four senses for bake. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bake is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are bake and beak, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from bake 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 bake produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.