Hidden inside drake sit drake and raked, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drake and raked tie for the highest Scrabble score from drake at 10 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in drake: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drake 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 drake and raked, 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 drake produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dark, dear, and read. For points, the strongest plays are dark and drek — 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 drake turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, and red. For points, the strongest play is dak — 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 drake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest play is ka — 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 drake 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.
drake 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 drake carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for drake. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
drake is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drake and raked, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drake 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 drake produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.