Hidden inside kames sit kames, makes, and samek, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
kames, makes, and samek tie for the highest Scrabble score from kames at 11 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in kames: two come from rearranging its letters, and kames itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with makes. For points, the strongest plays are kames, makes, and samek — 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 kames produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with make, mask, sake, and same. For points, the strongest plays are kame, make, and mask — 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 kames turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ask and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ask, kae, kas, kea, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in kames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. 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 kames 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.
kames 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.
kames is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing kames unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are kames, makes, and samek, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from kames 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 kames produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.