khaki needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. Short on board space? haik matches that same 11-point score in Scrabble while spending only four letters — the efficient pick when the long play won't fit. In all, 11 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
khaki and haik tie for the highest Scrabble score from khaki at 11 points. The top 10 of 11 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in khaki — and it is khaki itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in khaki 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.
khaki 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 two senses for khaki. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
khaki is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing khaki unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are khaki and haik, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from khaki 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 khaki produce 11 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 2 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.