Hidden inside keith is one standout: kithe, a five-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 22 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble EKITH, HKTIE or HKTEI and you get the same 5 letters as KEITH: so the words from KEITH listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
KEITH isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to KITHE (verb), to make known, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
kithe is the highest-scoring word from keith, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 22 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling keith produces exactly one five-letter word: kithe. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in keith 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is kithe, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from keith 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 keith produce 22 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.