keepsake needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
keepsake is the highest-scoring word from keepsake, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in keepsake — and it is keepsake itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling keepsake produces exactly one six-letter word: kapeek. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in keepsake. If a familiar word is all you need, start with keeps and speak. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including keeps, speak and apeek.
Rearranging the letters in keepsake produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ease and keep. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including keep, keps and paks.
Unscrambling keepsake turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ask and pea. For points, the strongest plays are kep and pak — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in keepsake plus one additional letter.
keepsake 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 keepsake. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
keepsake is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing keepsake unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is keepsake, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from keepsake 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 keepsake produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 12 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.