Hidden inside fakery sit fakery and freaky, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 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.
fakery and freaky tie for the highest Scrabble score from fakery at 16 points. The top 10 of 59 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in fakery: one comes from rearranging its letters, and fakery itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freaky. For points, the strongest plays are fakery and freaky — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fakery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freak. For points, the strongest play is fakey — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in fakery produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fake, fear, and year. For points, the strongest play is fyke — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling fakery turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye, ear, era, far, fry, and key. For points, the strongest plays are kaf, kay, kef, key, kye, and yak — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in fakery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ay. 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 fakery 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.
fakery 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 one sense for fakery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
fakery is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing fakery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fakery and freaky, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from fakery 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 fakery produce 59 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.