keepsakes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
keepsakes is the highest-scoring word from keepsakes, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in keepsakes — and it is keepsakes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling keepsakes produces exactly one eight-letter word: keepsake. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in keepsakes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, keeps and sakes. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including keeps, speak and apeek.
Rearranging the letters in keepsakes produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, asks and ease. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including keep, keps and paks.
Unscrambling keepsakes turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ask and ass. For points, the strongest plays are kep and pak — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in keepsakes plus one additional letter.
keepsakes 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 keepsakes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
keepsakes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing keepsakes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is keepsakes, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from keepsakes 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 keepsakes produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.