Hidden inside hacks sit hacks and shack, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hacks and shack tie for the highest Scrabble score from hacks at 14 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hacks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hacks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: hacks and shack, worth 14 points apiece in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hacks 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.
hacks 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 hacks carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record sixteen senses for hacks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
hacks is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hacks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hacks and shack, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hacks 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 hacks produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.