Hidden inside dekes sit dekes and skeed, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 19 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dekes and skeed tie for the highest Scrabble score from dekes at 10 points. The top 10 of 19 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in dekes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dekes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dekes and skeed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dekes produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desk, seed, and seek. For points, the strongest plays are deke, desk, eked, and sked — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dekes turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with see. For points, the strongest plays are eek and eke — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dekes. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 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 dekes 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.
dekes 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 dekes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
dekes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dekes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dekes and skeed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dekes 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 dekes produce 19 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.