Hidden inside freaks sit fakers and freaks, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
fakers and freaks tie for the highest Scrabble score from freaks at 13 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in freaks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and freaks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freaks. For points, the strongest plays are fakers and freaks — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in freaks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fakes, fears, freak, and safer. For points, the strongest plays are faker, fakes, freak, and kerfs — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in freaks produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ears, eras, fake, fear, safe, and sake. For points, the strongest plays are fake, kafs, kefs, and kerf — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling freaks turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ask, ear, era, far, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are kaf and kef — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in freaks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. 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 freaks 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.
freaks 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 freaks carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for freaks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
freaks is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing freaks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are fakers and freaks, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from freaks 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 freaks produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.