Hidden inside hokes sit hokes and okehs, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hokes and okehs tie for the highest Scrabble score from hokes at 12 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in hokes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hokes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hokes and okehs, 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 hokes produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hose and shoe. For points, the strongest plays are hoke and okeh — 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 hokes turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with she. For points, the strongest plays are kos and oke — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hokes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, ho, oh, ok, sh, and so. For points, the strongest play is ok — 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 hokes 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.
hokes 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.
hokes is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hokes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hokes and okehs, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hokes 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 hokes produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.