Hidden inside hawkies sit hawkies and weakish, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hawkies and weakish tie for the highest Scrabble score from hawkies at 17 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in hawkies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hawkies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hawkies and weakish, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hawkies produces exactly one six-letter word: hawkie. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hawkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hikes, shake, and wakes. For points, the strongest plays are hawks and whisk — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hawkies produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hike, sake and wake. For points, the strongest play is hawk — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hawkies turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ask and has. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hawkies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and aw. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in hawkies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hawkies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
hawkies 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.
hawkies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hawkies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hawkies and weakish, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hawkies 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 hawkies produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.