Hidden inside krait sit krait and traik, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
krait and traik tie for the highest Scrabble score from krait at 9 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in krait: one comes from rearranging its letters, and krait itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are krait and traik, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in krait produces 5 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 ikat, kart, krai, and raki, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in krait 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.
krait 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in krait carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for krait. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
krait is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing krait unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are krait and traik, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from krait 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 krait produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.