Hidden inside risked sit dikers, disker, risked and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dikers, disker, risked and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from risked at 11 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in risked: three come from rearranging its letters, and risked itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with risked. For points, the strongest plays are dikers, disker, risked, and skried — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in risked. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dries, rides, and skied. For points, the strongest plays are diker, dikes, dirks, dreks, irked, and skied — 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 risked produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desk, dies, kids, ride, rids, rise, and risk. For points, the strongest plays are desk, dike, dirk, disk, drek, kids, sked, and skid — 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 risked turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, kid, red, rid, sir, and ski. For points, the strongest play is kid — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in risked. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest play is ki — 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 risked 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.
risked 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 risked carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
risked is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing risked unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dikers, disker, risked, and skried, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from risked 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 risked produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.