Hidden inside karts sit karst, karts, and stark, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
karst, karts, and stark tie for the highest Scrabble score from karts at 9 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in karts: two come from rearranging its letters, and karts 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 karst, karts, and stark, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in karts produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, rats, star, and task. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including task, arks and kart.
Swap a single tile in karts 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.
karts 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 karts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
karts is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing karts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are karst, karts, and stark, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from karts 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 karts produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.