Hidden inside irksome sit irksome and smokier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
irksome and smokier tie for the highest Scrabble score from irksome at 13 points. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in irksome: one comes from rearranging its letters, and irksome 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 irksome and smokier, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling irksome turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smoker. For points, the strongest plays are kermis, smoker, and smokie — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in irksome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with smoke. For points, the strongest plays are merks, mikes, mirks, mokes, smerk, smirk, and smoke — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in irksome produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with more, rise, risk, rose, some, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are merk, mike, mirk, moke, mosk, and skim — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling irksome turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sir and ski. For points, the strongest plays are irk, kir, kis, koi, kor, kos, oik, oke, and ski — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in irksome. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, me, ok, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in irksome plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in irksome 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.
irksome 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 one sense for irksome. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
irksome is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing irksome unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are irksome and smokier, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from irksome 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 irksome produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.