Hidden inside keeps sit keeps, peeks, and pekes, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
keeps, peeks, and pekes tie for the highest Scrabble score from keeps at 11 points. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in keeps: two come from rearranging its letters, and keeps itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with keeps. For points, the strongest plays are keeps, peeks, and pekes — 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 keeps produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with keep, pees, and seek. For points, the strongest plays are keep, keps, peek, peke, and skep — 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 keeps turns up 6 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee and see. For points, the strongest play is kep — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in keeps. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 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 keeps 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.
keeps 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 twenty-five senses for keeps. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
keeps is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing keeps unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are keeps, peeks, and pekes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from keeps 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 keeps produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 2 two-letter words.