Hidden inside khakis sit khakis and kishka, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. Short on board space? haiks matches that same 12-point score in Scrabble while spending only five letters — the efficient pick when the long play won't fit. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
khakis, kishka, and haiks tie for the highest Scrabble score from khakis at 12 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in khakis: one comes from rearranging its letters, and khakis itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are khakis and kishka, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in khakis. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is haiks, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in khakis produces 6 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are haik and khis, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling khakis turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ask, has, his, and ski. For points, the strongest play is khi — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in khakis. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, ha, hi, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ka and ki — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in khakis plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in khakis and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
khakis 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 khakis. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
khakis is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing khakis unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are khakis, kishka, and haiks, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from khakis 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 khakis produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.