Hidden inside hakes sit hakes and shake, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hakes and shake tie for the highest Scrabble score from hakes at 12 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hakes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hakes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shake. For points, the strongest plays are hakes and shake — 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 hakes produces 6 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sake. For points, the strongest play is hake — 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 hakes turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ask, has, sea, and she. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kae, kas, kea, and ska — each worth 7 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 hakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. 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 hakes 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.
hakes 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 two senses for hakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
hakes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hakes and shake, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hakes 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 hakes produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.