Hidden inside carked sit arcked, carked, dacker and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 59 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arcked, carked, dacker and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from carked at 13 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in carked: three come from rearranging its letters, and carked itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arcked, carked, dacker, and racked, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in carked. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared and raced. For points, the strongest plays are caked and dreck — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in carked produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cake, card and care. For points, the strongest play is deck — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling carked turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car and ear. For points, the strongest play is ack — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
10 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in carked plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in carked 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.
carked 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.
carked is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing carked unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arcked, carked, dacker, and racked, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from carked 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 carked produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.