Hidden inside irks sit irks, kirs, kris and 1 other, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
irks, kirs, kris and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from irks at 8 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 four-letter words hiding in irks: three come from rearranging its letters, and irks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with risk. For points, the strongest plays are irks, kirs, kris, and risk — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
24 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in irks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in irks and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
irks 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 irks carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for irks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
irks is one of four four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing irks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are irks, kirs, kris, and risk, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from irks 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 irks produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.