Hidden inside markes sit makers and masker, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
MARKES isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to MAKERS and MASKER.
makers and masker tie for the highest Scrabble score from markes at 12 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling markes turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with makers. For points, the strongest plays are makers and masker — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maker, makes, and marks. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including maker, makes and marks.
Rearranging the letters in markes produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears and eras. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including make, mark and mask.
Unscrambling markes turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ask. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in markes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in markes 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are makers and masker, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from markes 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 markes produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.