hearkens needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hearkens is the highest-scoring word from hearkens, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in hearkens — and it is hearkens itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hearkens produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sneaker. For points, the strongest plays are hankers, harkens, and hearken — each 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 hearkens turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shaken and shrank. For points, the strongest plays are hanker, harken, kasher, shaken, shaker, and shrank — 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 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearkens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase, hears, knees, saner, shake, and share. For points, the strongest plays are ankhs, hakes, hanks, harks, khans, shake, shank, and shark — 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 hearkens produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, ears, ease, eras, hear, hens, and here. For points, the strongest plays are ankh, hake, hank, hark, and khan — 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 hearkens turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ash, ask, ear, era, has, and hen. For points, the strongest plays are ark, ask, eek, eke, kae, kas, kea, ken, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hearkens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, an, 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 hearkens and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
hearkens 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 hearkens carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for hearkens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
hearkens is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hearkens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is hearkens, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from hearkens 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 hearkens produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.